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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many people who are alone at Christmas. Whether those we love and care about are absent because of death, distance, health or relational problems, being alone is not uncommon at Christmas or throughout...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. May the mind of Christ live in me,Every minute of every day.May the grace that He has given me,Establish my heart in His perfect way. (Hebrews 13:9) May I always reflect that wondrous love,His sacrificial...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Today is more than Halloween! It’s also Reformation Day! Sweeter than any Halloween candy is the “treat” that has been passed down through the ages. On October 31, 1517, the 16th century German theologian and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus We all fear. It’s an emotion that grabs and grips us with a hold that is strong and controlling. Fear rises up in us when we find ourselves in dangerous situations, when we...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Last week, we talked about the ear gate and asked, “Is the Monkey at Your Gate?” The eye is another gate through which information enters into our minds. While the ear gate...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus [Note: the monkey at your gate will make sense when you finish reading.] As Christians we are all familiar with the saying, “we live in the world but we are not of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Christians are being slaughtered for their faith in the Middle East. They have not been silent about their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The questions have been raised,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. So often we hear messages about what Christians are to do. Do this, do that. They’re all about “go and do,” and they all seem to be prodding the “sheep” with the rod, rather than guiding the sheep with the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In our Got Questions? column we’ve addressed the question, What is Election? We’ve looked at two five-point theological statements that address the doctrine of election: the Five Articles of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Daily we evaluate our lives, reviewing what we’ve thought, said and done. We consider the good things and the bad…and we should! It’s absolutely necessary to reflect upon our thoughts, words and actions so...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Romans 12 is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. It speaks about our response to the great gift of salvation we have received and how we are to live our lives in the joy of our salvation. In Christ, we have...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. What can we learn from Lady Liberty? Lady Liberty stands tall on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor. She holds her beacon of light high above her head, and is attired in a flowing robe. She is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When I was a young child, my father would quiz me with this trivia question: “What is the shortest verse in the Bible?” The answer was simple, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). I always got it right, but...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus David Kinnaman, in his book You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church and Rethinking Faith labeled the current generation as nomads, prodigals and exiles. ...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Paul speaks very clearly in Galatians 5 about our battle against the enemy within…ourselves. All too often we look to others, or even demonic spiritual forces, to be the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus War, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Remember those lyrics? They’re from the 1969 protest song, “War,” by Edwin Starr (It was also recorded by The...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Get Wisdom: Principles from Proverbs I just returned from three days at The Cove, the Billy Graham Evangelist Association’s training center in Asheville, NC. What a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.Run From — Run To — Run For Paul speaks clearly about the race we run. It’s a race that is run on a path of sanctification—a path that leads to growing in holiness in Christ (Ephesians 4:15) and being conformed to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The second Person of the Trinity came to earth and took on human form. He lived the life we could not live and died the death we should have died. How dark and sad those days must have been for His disciples when...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.We hope you will take the time to reflect on these passages throughout this Holy Week. Read the excerpt from each passage and then read and reflect upon the entire passage. Palm Sunday, Mark 11: 1-11 Mark 11:9-11 ...
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