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Sanctification
There are sentences that I come upon that, at times, take my breath away. As I am going through F.F. Bruce’s commentary on Hebrews, I am finding a lot of those moments. The passage is Hebrews 2 10 It was appropriate for God, for whom and through whom everything exists, to use experiences of suffering to make perfect the pioneer of…
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Majesty
3 The Son is the light of God’s glory and the imprint of God’s being. He maintains everything with his powerful message. After he carried out the cleansing of people from their sins, he sat down at the right side of the highest majesty. (Heb. 1:3, CEB) The first 4 verses of Hebrews are truly beautiful. As I prepare to teach…
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Idols
I am working my way through the first six chapters of Daniel in my sermon series. Next Sunday is Daniel 3, the story of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. (We know their Babylonian names better: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.) Just one early thought to get going for the week: The idol of a culture is set up and three young men…
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Unshakeable
44 “But in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will be indestructible. Its rule will never pass to another people. It will shatter other kingdoms. It will put an end to all of them. It will stand firm forever” (Dan. 2:44, CEB) The vision Daniel saw in this chapter was one…
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You’ve Been Lazy and Haven’t Been Listening
This verse out of the Common English Bible should wake us up! 11 We have a lot to say about this topic, and it’s difficult to explain, because you have been lazy and you haven’t been listening. (Heb. 5:11, CEB) There is so much to move on to, but too often we keep lagging behind. We are satisfied with being spoon…
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Waiting… and waiting…
In the words of Shawn Spencer, my favorite TV detective (currently): “Wait for iiiiiitttttt.” But waiting is such an awful thought! We complain and we want an answer… NOW. We ask something from God and we want it… NOW. Habakkuk was an impatient prophet. God did answer, just not in a way Habakkuk liked. 2 Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and…
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I Can’t Find God
There are those times when God just doesn’t seem to be there. It’s really as if the darkness does hide him. These words from Job are powerful: 8 Look, I go east; he’s not there, west, and don’t discover him; 9 north in his activity, and I don’t grasp him; he turns south, and I don’t see. 10 Surely he knows my way;…
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The One Who Walks Among Us
This is “Revelation Week” at our church. We are finishing up our summer reading, “Eat This Book,” and we finish with THE END… or is it THE BEGINNING? It is the revelation of Jesus Christ, not a revelation of “the end of the world as we know it.” This is a letter of love from the Savior to his Church. The…
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My “Guilty Pleasure” is the Book of Revelation
Today our church goes through 1-3 John, but I’ve already begun my re-reading of Revelation. This book is my “guilty pleasure” in Scripture reading. I find so many people avoid it because it’s so difficult to understand. Those who seem to “enjoy” it do so as they “teach” in a way that is linear and very American. While I was…
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