All of these new things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and who gave us the ministry of reconciliation. In other words, God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ, by not counting people’s sins against them. He has trusted us with this message of reconciliation.2 Corinthians 5:18-19 For today …
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4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-5It's me, it's me, it's me, O Lord,Standin' in the need of prayer.It's me, it's me, it's me, O …
This week both the men's groups I meet with are scheduled to read some of Christ's comments regarding divorce (from Matthew 5 and Matthew 19). - Derek Maul Here in the United States and Europe, divorce is a fact of life. Look around, and – typically – half the people you see have been through …
Jesus is grieved by the status quo, the day by day sameness of segregation, of not bothering to know one another, of quiet resignation.
Because, in the garden especially, there is no such thing as done.
Our love, in the language of The Church, is a Reformation kind of love. By that I mean that falling in love not only challenged and changed us, but it continues to challenge us and change us.
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each …
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The central theme of the scriptures is the redemptive initiative of God's relentless love.
it's good to spend twenty-four hours with those too young to have learned to be cynical, and also with those who have traveled far enough through the morass to see clearly to the other side.
What an idea! That churches become leaders in reconciliation, rather than standing as more sad evidence of the brokenness that is destroying this world....
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