Bible References

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The Absent Are Safe Here

Have you ever experienced the type of close intimacy, or healing that comes from being part of a group of people with whom you are completely safe? This week’s Moment to Celebrate!

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Crank It Up!

Nothing in creation is exempt from the calling to bear witness to God, but what can provide the grandest praise of all? Let’s take a look, in this week’s Moment to Celebrate!

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Palm Sunday’s Fleeting Affection

On Palm Sunday the crowds laid down their cloaks in front of Jesus with shouts of “Hosanna!” If only it had ended there, but in just a week that same crowd turned on Jesus with equal intensity.

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Be Ready For Testing

Rarely do we know when we are about to be tested. And yet, some of our sister churches are in that position today. This week’s guest devotional challenges our preparedness for such times in life, and encourages us to appreciate the dramatic changes we inevitably will experience!

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Finding Zeal in Lonely Places

How do you maximize your time with God? Can a life of multi-tasked prayer give us the zeal the Bible instructs us to have? This Lent let’s look at how Jesus maintained a close relationship with his Heavenly Father.

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A Right Perspective of Time

Lent provides us with an opportunity to take a hard look at our past, future, and present. In so doing, we are given a right perspective of our place in time. Throughout Lent, let’s think on such things. This week’s Moment to Celebrate!

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God’s Occupy Movement

Have you been following the Occupy movement? Here in the U.S. we are in a national debate about government responsibility verses individual responsibility. Let’s take a look at what the Bible says in Ezekiel about responsibility, and the ripple effect of sin in this week’s Moment to Celebrate.

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God’s Fait Accompli?

Do you believe that God is in the process of making all that is into all that he wants it to be? Most Christians believe so. Practically speaking, then, are God’s children to simply embrace everything around them as God-ordered, God’s work in progress, his fait accompli?

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A Friendly Curse

Has anyone ever written you a note to say, “a curse be on you?” The Apostle Paul includes a curse in one of his letters. With all his talk about love, how can this be? Let’s look, in this week’s Moment to Celebrate!