Revelations 2:4,5 …You have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Have you ever looked down at your life and wondered, How did I get here? I am not speaking of the events of life over which we have…
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Revelations 1:14-16 His eyes were like a flame of fire…and his voice was like the roar of many waters… from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. I have a confession to make. I skipped this passage yesterday because I sometimes choose the God…
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Jude 1:21,22 …Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And have mercy on those who doubt. Some of the worst words ever to escape my lips have been wrought out of the conviction that I was right in the eyes of…
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Jude 1:16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters showing favoritism to gain advantage. When Jude speaks of the grumbling malcontent, focused on self, I know exactly who he is talking about. As soon as I read these words, I attach a name and I get irritated. I know who…
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Jude 1:12-13 These are… shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever. I am no poet but if I was,…
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3 John 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. When I was a kid, my father and I were downtown one day when I talked him into buying me candy cigarettes. Being a father now myself, I know that he thought it would be amusing to see what mom would say. She of…
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2 John 1:4,5 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth…And now I ask you… that we love one another. As I wrote a few days ago, God is a perfect balance of both love and truth. As we have been made in his image, we too have this head…
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1 John 5:14,15 …If we ask anything according to his will he hears us…we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. As I was watching my Cornhuskers play last night I found myself contemplating this passage, the outcome of the game and the location of my red pen. I do…
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1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. As a kid, I was easy pickings for anyone giving an alter call. Anyone who grew up in an evangelical church knows that of which I speak.…
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