March 28, 2024
All the way from Abel to John the Baptist, Scripture uses the figure of the lamb. This verse from Isaiah was what the Ethiopian eunuch was reading when Philip climbed up into his chariot. The Ethiopian asked Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about, himself or another?” Philip said it was Another who was yet to come, and he told him about Jesus who had come as the Lamb led to the slaughter.
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March 28, 2024
The book of Isaiah is a high pinnacle in our journey through the whole Word of God.
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February 28, 2024
In case you wonder who Jesus is, after reading and studying Colossians you should wonder no longer. Here is the clearest and most inspiring explanation of the deity and majesty of Jesus, God’s Son, perhaps in all of Scripture. This passionate letter to the Colossians defends Christianity against the sneaky, insidious philosophy of Gnosticism (that said Jesus was a lesser god born among many gods). We learn here that Jesus is God and fully God in every aspect.
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February 28, 2024
"This book brings Christ down to where we live ... where the rubber meets the road."
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January 31, 2024
There are some who feel Song of Solomon should not be in the Bible. If you’re going through the Word of God for the first time, you may be puzzled when you come to this little book that’s so different from the others. Abused by those who don’t understand it, even misunderstood and misinterpreted by some Christians, few know what to do with it. Most everyone will just ignore it.
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January 31, 2024
Everywhere you look, people are trying to be happy without God. We experiment in a million different ways. The book of Ecclesiastes shows the absurdity of those experiments. Solomon tried every field of endeavor and pleasure known to man and his conclusion was, "It's all vanity."
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January 31, 2024
Solomon's love song to his wife is a timeless, profound, love letter picturing God's love for us. Dr. McGee tells us, "Salvation is a love affair—we love Him because He first loved us. That is the story this little book is telling."
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December 21, 2023
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (2:5). What kind of mind did Jesus have? In a word: humble. Jesus thinks of Himself with humility. He is God, yet He left heaven’s glory where He is worshipped to come to a world that dismissed Him, locked Him out.
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December 21, 2023
Paul wrote this loving letter from prison—though you'd never know it. It overflows with practical, personal help to live the Christian life.
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November 29, 2023
A proverb is a saying that communicates a specific truth in a pointed and pithy manner. A good proverb is a truth that’s easy to remember, it’s a rule for conduct, a philosophy based on experience.
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October 31, 2023
Many people run for cover when they hear the word predestination. The natural man hates this word, and the average believer finds it difficult to accept at face value. Although the explanation might be clear, the truth it contains is hard to receive.
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October 31, 2023
Proverbs is the most intensely practical book in the Bible, filled with wisdom for everyday issues.
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September 28, 2023
In 62 A.D., four men left Rome, traveling east to modern Turkey. Tucked in their satchels, each carried a letter written by a Roman prisoner waiting to appear before the emperor. These four letters are in the Word of God, called the “Prison Epistles of Paul.”
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September 28, 2023
Think about how you've grown in your Christian life since you came to faith in Jesus Christ. The why and how are here in Ephesians.
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August 25, 2023
When Jesus was 12, Dr. Luke thought it was proper to tell us one occurrence in Jesus’ life that marks a change from childhood to adolescence. It is an isolated incident, and we don’t want to miss it, for it bridges the gap from His birth to the time He began His public ministry.
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July 28, 2023
The key word in the book of Psalms is “hallelujah”—that is, “praise the Lord.” ... The Psalms model what it means for us to connect with God—in praise, thanksgiving, and sorrow.
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July 28, 2023
What do the Psalms teach us? God is good, and life is hard. The person who walks by faith in God walks between these two realities every day of their life.
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June 27, 2023
How do you want to live your life in God? You have three choices: By the Law. By license. By liberty. The Law strangles you with rules, but license kills you with permissiveness. Only when you live as free as you are in Christ does life work out for you as God intended.
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June 27, 2023
When you "think Galatians, think grace."
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May 31, 2023
With all of his other qualities, we seldom think of Paul as a man of prayer, yet this is the field in which he excelled. In his letter to the Ephesians Paul prays twice. Let’s look at what characterized these two prayers.
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