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24.51 Jesus the Bringer of Gifts

It’s called Christmas and some are celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many have embraced the idea of the innocent babe born in a poor estate and the wonders that His birth and the hope that Christmas brings. Christmas is also a time of gift giving. Jesus came and became Emmanuel, that is, God with us. A first and a divinely powerful gift if you can try to grasp it. Embrace how God…

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24.50 Guided by Truth

Which source code is loaded into your guidance system? One thing that marks a believer, or anyone for that matter, is what guides their decisions and how they view life. People generally get wiser as they get older, but what wisdom spans the ages and is worthy of being trusted? Believers will, and unbelievers may, look towards the Bible in times of difficulty to find comfort or direction. Just…

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24.49 Thou shall not sue

Being threatened with a lawsuit or getting tied up in court that allows unscrupulous parties to declare falsehood with impunity is one of the most disruptive injustices in life. Alternately, for intra-family conflicts for a party to initiate or threaten of litigation without regard for taking intentional steps to engage in a mature (for believers, spirit lead) discussion before embarking a…

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24.48 I Told You...

There are times when you ignore the warning and then it happens. What happens? Just what you were told. “I told you” rings in your mind as you ponder why you thought otherwise. How good is your intelligence information? With a supernatural thread that spans 1600 years, the Bible offers several prophetic warnings intended to alert and call people to faith in God and through His Son Jesus…

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24.47 Headship (in Marriage)

14 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in…

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24.46 Born into the Family

A meaning of Born Again that you may not have thought about is being born as an heir to God’s kingdom, like you were born into the flesh by earthly parents into an earthly, as a born-again Christian, you are born into the spirit by a heavenly Father into a heavenly family. To be born into God’s family, you receive your royal inheritance. What is interestingly true, is you are about as…

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24.45 Unlikely Surrender

Throughout the Bible there is a broad cast of characters, but one kind of person I want to highlight in this article is the unlikely person to come to faith in God in a powerful way. For the purpose of this article, I’m not looking for an Israelite. An Israelite by default is part of the 12 tribes of Israel. Falling into this category would not be considered a likely candidate. In Jesus’ time,…

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24.44 The Ghetto Mentality

There’s a time when banding together for survival is a necessity. I’m thinking about the ghetto communities in many immigrant cultures where community and language are existentially familiar. Banding together among the groups, families and individuals one easily identifies with offers a more stable environment in which to prosper and assimilate within the greater culture. The GhettoPhoto by…

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24.42 Someone rude to you?

You may have been offended. I recently was. After the emotions settled down, I realize during that time of strong disappointment, anger and frustration, I was not doing well at placing myself at the will of God, instead, I was more basking in selfishness and capitulating to weaknesses. A Christian should cultivate a view that an antagonist may need the gospel. The foundation for presenting the…

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24.41 Destruction and Life

Like many of us across the country and around the world, I was saddened and astounded at the amount of devastation there has been across the path of Hurricane Helen and now Milton. Yet I was encouraged to see the responses of the Christian organizations and compassionate citizens acting in force to bring relief. In all of this tragedy, I thought to myself that this level of destruction, the…

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27.07 Men, stop fidgetting

A big man fidgeting around like a child is disturbing

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24.40 Discernment leads to Daring

Some people seem gifted, they are like the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, boldly going forth to proclaim the Gospel and hope offered by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ! Then you might be like me, someone who was ignorant of the need for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Discernment of the reality of God results in daring, results in becoming the Salt of the Earth. Photo by Lucas Suárez on…

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24.39 Liberation from Self-Pity

Have you ever felt the drag of self-pity, beset with a sense of injustice or unfairness when things didn’t go the way you had hoped or planned? Ruminating about the disappointing circumstances weighs on you and then before you know it, it affects you in a way the people around you notice something is wrong. You may resist speaking about it, letting it simmer within you, using much of your mind’s…

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24.38 Voices and Truth

How many of you have been irritated by the voice of an evangelist. Plenty of people have been turned off by the stereotypical voice of a preacher speaking from the pulpit with a certain kind of voice that seemed reserved for a TV evangelists. Not that all preachers garner some link to a cold call solicitor, but peak level irritation gets triggered quickly without regard to the message,…

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24.37 Should you decide to accept it...

A take off on the famous line from the TV show Mission Impossible. Now this would create a nice big fire if it self-destructed.Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com “Your mission [your name], should you decide to accept it,… followed by the famous ending, “This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds.” THE TOUGH DECISION AWAITS. You are thinking to yourself, Wow, I better have a great memory, Did…

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24.36 Denying Self

What does it mean to deny self? 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If, however, it is to be life here and I am to go on living, this will mean useful and productive service for me; so I do not know which to choose. 23 But I am hard-pressed between the two. I have the desire to leave and be with Christ, for that is far, far better; 24 yet to remain in my body is more…

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24.35 Why is the Truth Jesus?

Whatever your background and heritage, everyone believes in something regarded as truth. Personally held truths in its various forms creates the framework for individuals to discriminate and judge the conditions of life. It’s the object of one’s faith that form the mental and spiritual lighthouse from which purpose and meaning are derived. How reliable is the object of your faith? The truth…