Rightfully so, they focus on the benefits of marriage, the love, the hope, the satisfaction. Very few talk much about the work ...
article by Michael Horner
Most scholars agree that, even though there is interdependence between much of the gospel accounts, the appearance accounts are independent of one another. The evidence from 5 independent historical sources indicates that on 12 separate occasions various individuals and groups in various locations and circumstances saw Jesus alive after his death.6 ...
Personal mark
Personally – I am coming clean – washing away the dirt of my life
Acts 22:3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today. 4 “I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both ...
Luke 24:13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.
Luke 24:17 He asked them, "What are y ...
Capturing a God Moment
Easter – April 8, 2007
Capture a moment – moments come along that are meaningful to us and we don’t want to let the impact of that moment get away from us
There are times in our lives when we capture a moment that changes everything. Maybe it is a photo, or a song; it can be a painting or a memory. We capture this moment and it is never far from our thoughts. I l ...
John 18:1-11; Luke 22:66-23:25; Mark 15:16-20; Matt 27: 32-56
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Jesus was arrested and His trial immediately began very early in the morning. The trial of all eternity, that took place in three courts, was over by mid-morning. Jesus allowed rulers that He had established to condemn Him, soldiers that He had knit together ...
John13:1-17; Matt 26:17-30; Mark 14:27-41; Luke 22: 24-62
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Jesus establishes a new covenant that fulfills the old one and brings hope to us today. This is a covenant of forgiveness that is sealed by His blood and is symbolized in the act of communion. It is in a relationship with Jesus that we find our hope. Even in this, Je ...
John 12:20-50; Matthew 26:1-16
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Jesus knows now is the time for which He has come. This is the culmination of His time on earth. God is about to glorify Himself, through His Son, in an astonishing way to demonstrate the extraordinary love He has for His creation. Jesus reinforces the values of the Kingdom of God that He has s ...
Matt 24:30-51; Mark 13:26-37; Luke 21:25-36; John 14:1-4
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Jesus knows He is going to the cross, and in a few days will be raised again, but still He wants His followers to know the story does not end when he leaves them.
God's work has eternal endurance, nothing is only for the day. "Heaven and earth will pass away, bu ...
Jesus cleanses His templeMatt 21:12-17; Mark 11:12-19; Luke 19:45-48
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Jesus entered the temple and did not like what He saw. It was not the place it was intended to be.
"My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations' But you have made it ‘a den of robbers'."
1 Corinthians 6:19 says "Do you not know that your body is a temple of t ...