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“…intending after Easter…” — Acts 12:4 Did you go to church on Easter Sunday? I hope so. Sadly however, while Easter is the most attended church service of the year, most do not intend to attend on successive Sundays. It is not showing up at church on special day but faithfulness to God on every …
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. —Job 37:21 Living in the Seattle area, we get more than our share of cloudy days. I heard on the local weather forecast this week that so far this year, we’ve only have four official …
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ… —2 Peter 1:16 There are many fictional books and Hollywood movies that are loosely based on events in the Bible. Some people are enthralled by them, while they couldn’t care less about …
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. —Matthew 9:16 I read this week about a British woman who tried to even out a chipped rim on an old Chinese vase …
“Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.” —Matthew 8:19 Webster says a master is “a male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions.” In that sense Jesus should be our master. When you see a dog following two men, …
“Give me thine heart…” —Proverbs 23:26 What God wants is YOU. “Yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary… and serve the LORD your God” (2 Chron. 30:8). Again, “Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Rom. 12:1). The Macedonians got it right. They “first …