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December 11 Hosea 12-14 and Revelation 3
Hosea 12-14; Revelation 3 “If only….” Ever said that? I usually say that if I drive by a beautiful house, or while walking in the department store near the big screen TV’s. “If only I could afford...
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Action Step #3 – Build a Box
One way of bringing joy to children around the world is through one of my favorite groups: Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child collects shoeboxes full of small gifts and are given out...
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Action Step #9 – Remember
One group of people that seems to have the most trouble with judgment are people who are homeless. Rather than meeting needs we want to sort and categorize and explain and look down on those without a...
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February 10 – A Burden for Ministry
Hebrews 7; Exodus 3:1-4:31; Psalm 41 I’m sure that every pastor has people who come up with amazing ministry ideas. The conversations probably start like this: “Pastor, the church needs to ….” And they...
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April 3 – Entrance
Matthew 26:1-25; Numbers 35-36; Job 3 Recently the CEO of a major chain store said something to anger conservative Christians. An outcry arose and, surprise, many conservative Christians vowed to vote...
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June 8 – We Are the Body
Romans 13; 1 Samuel 25; Psalm 68 One of the most important Christian beliefs that leads to action in this world is the idea that as followers of Christ, we are to be His body. One of the names for the...
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August 11 – Jabez Revisited
2 Corinthians 13; 1 Chronicles 3-4; Zephaniah 1 Ok, I confess. Whenever I see lists of names in my Bible I glaze through it. My thoughts are something like “Ok, all these guys are forerunners of the...
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August 24 – Just Do It
John 6:1-21; 1 Chronicles 22:2-23:32; Zechariah 9 Alright, it’s confession time. How many times have you responded to someone who asked you to help them with something along the lines of “That’s not my...
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September 17 – Dirty Hands
John 18:19-38; 2 Chronicles 27-28; Psalm 84 You may have seen some kind of gangster movie where the head of the mob is sitting down to an elegant dinner when one of his underlings comes in looking...
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November 13 – Faith in Action
James 1; Jeremiah 21-22; Psalm 129 If I were to use the words “Just do it,” you might think I’m talking about a brand of shoes. That shoe brand has made that phrase and their logo a part of modern...
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December 10 – A Call to the Ends of the Earth
Ephesians 5:21-33; Ezekiel 16; Isaiah 45 Every sport has an off season. During that time teams look for just the right guy and sign him in the off season. Every so often a superstar becomes available...
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April 30 – The Opportunites in Rejection
Acts 13:26-52; Joshua 20-21; Job 30 Paul and Barnabas began their missionary journey with the purpose of leading all people to follow Jesus – but especially Jews. The pattern that would continue...
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December 28 – Fresh Start
Luke 3:21-38; Ezekiel 42-43; Isaiah 63 John’s ministry had a simple goal: prepare the way for the Lord, the Messiah, to come. He called people to repentance. He called them to turn away from their...
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December 30 – The Mission
I realized that I hadn’t posted this yesterday. We began the day with internet problems and then had another interruption in the normal day. Picture at the bottom of the page. Luke 4:31-44; Ezekiel...
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February 26 – STOP! It’s Too Much!
Matthew 6:19-34; Exodus 35:1-36:38; Proverbs 16 The Israelites who fled from Egypt had a lot of problems. Their willingness to give for a greater purpose was not one of them. Sometimes it got them in...
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April 2 – The Greatest Show on Earth
Matthew 25; 31-46; Numbers 32-34; Job 2 I had a teacher get mad at me once. She didn’t talk to me for the longest time. As I observed her and heard other teachers and students talk about her, though, I...
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May 23 – Snake Bit!
Acts 28:1-16; 1 Samuel 4-5; Psalm 52 The ship that was taking Paul to Rome wrecked and all aboard were rescued on the island of Malta. As they were building a fire, a snake bit Paul and the islanders...
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May 5 – Wait
Psalm 97; Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47; Psalm 93; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53 There are a lot of people who are like me. We hear of something that needs to be done and we are ready to jump on it and …...
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July 21 – Shadow People
Psalm 138; Esther 2:19—3:6; Acts 1:15-20 We see the scene repeated in many different movies. Two of the heroes are making plans in a dark hallway to do whatever they need to do to overthrow the evil...
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