Let us love God, not just the things he gives us....
"So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life."(Romans 6:11-13) Live in the new reality of the resurrecti...
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Have you ever been abandoned? Perhaps a friend deserted you when you thought she would be there for you? Maybe a parent left while you were young? Maybe one of your children has rejected your love? Have you ever been left alone by someone you loved? In Mark's account of Jesus' death, we come to some stark words in chapter 15, verse 34. "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried w...
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In Exodus 25:1, God says,"Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me." He goes on to give a sort of shopping list of supplies that will be needed for the tabernacle. And he asks for contributions from those whose hearts move them. He wants them to want to give. Later in...
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