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Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. (I Corinthians 12:27 ESV) I have a free membership to a health club. With the free membership comes the responsibility of actually using its facilities. I don’t want to lose the membership, so I show up once in a while, get a…
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Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV) One winter when I was about 14 years old, we had a heavy snowstorm that brought most everything to a standstill. My grandmother lived about a mile away from us and was spending a few…
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Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. I Peter 5:8c-9 (ESV) Jesus defeated Satan by dying on the cross and rising from the dead. However,…
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“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory.” (Isa. 66:18) Christians easily recognize this prophecy from Isaiah as a prediction of God’s call to all humanity through Jesus Christ to be part of “the…
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) Several weeks ago, my Mom, Leona, who is 96 years old, experienced some traumatic convulsions. My niece, Laura, who she lives with, took her to the hospital where the doctors…
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Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? …You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:3,5 (ESV) There…
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But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts crying, “Abba!…
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Now the boy SamueI was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. (Samuel 3:1 ESV) I invite you to read Samuel 3:1-18. It is clear in this passage that people had become so distracted in their…
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And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples,…
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Psalm 23:3a (KJV) He restoreth my soul. We just held Tractor Sunday at our church, Emanuel Lutheran in Elmer, NJ. The objective is to get our friends and neighbors out to church, and we encourage them to bring their restored old tractors and , in some cases, antique cars to our outdoor service. Some…