He paid the penalty we should have paid to forgive us of our sins, to cleanse us from all unrighteousness he says, and it's a new start.
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We carry so many things in our lives that burden us down. What is burdening you today?
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A short while before he died in a plane crash years ago, professional golfer Payne Stewart gave his testimony at a church. “When I die,” Stewart said, “I’m going to a special place--but I want to live a special life here and now.”
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Do you ever feel that God feels very distant? What is recorded in the Bible happened thousands of years ago and sometimes can feel so unrelated to how we live now.
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The way of life in Jesus Christ is first the way of peace, second of purity, and third of love. Not only that, but the way of life in Jesus is also the way of obedience.
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Did you know the Bible says a Christian is someone who walks in the way of life in Jesus Christ? First, it’s the way of peace. Second, it’s the way of purity.
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The Bible tells us that a Christian is someone who walks in the way of life. Did you know that?
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Did you know the Bible says a Christian is someone who walks in the way of life? And that way is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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Each time I see a racing ambulance I am reminded that life is short. At any moment, any of us could take our last breath.
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Someone once asked me, “Luis, why don’t you talk more about the things God is against? You know - all of the hot-button issues.” I kind of chuckled, because isn’t this so true of us today?
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It seems like every time I go into a bookstore, there’s another bestselling self-help book on the front shelf. “How to be successful” or “How to be rich” or “How to be happy” or “How to be fulfilled”.
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Did you know that time is actually sacred? I think sometimes we get so caught up in running from thing to thing - errands, or school, or work meetings - that we can forget this.
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It seems like now, more than ever, this world is full of distracting noise. I was in New York; when I was in Times Square I noticed this noise more than ever.
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I pray for you the blessing that Paul offers in 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24: “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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Hebrews 4:15 [MSG] says that Jesus has “been through weakness and testing, [and] experienced it all—all but the sin.” While Jesus was the perfect Son of God, He experienced it all, indeed, including apparent personal growth.
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We live in a broken world. Nothing seems all together anymore. In the midst of it all, however, God invites us to experience wholeness.
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Was the first Christmas a surprise? The religious leaders at that time scoffed.
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Why did the Magi risk everything? In many ways, these wise men had become holy fools—desperate, compelled, and finally obsessed.
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So profound were the events of the first Christmas that one angel of the Lord wasn’t enough. As soon as the angel finishes his announcement of “good tidings of great joy” to the shepherds of Bethlehem, the lights go up and a choir of hundreds—perhaps thousands—of angels celebrate in song.
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We sometimes forget that Mary and Joseph’s relatives, friends, and neighbors couldn’t understand what was happening in their lives. The same was true for Zechariah and Elizabeth.
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