Advent is to Christmas what Lent is to Easter, and therefore like Lent, Advent prepares us to experience Christmas in new and powerful ways each year. Each year, beginning with the advent, we know that Christmas, the birth of Christ, is coming. Advent, which is a time of preparation, declaration, and anticipation, helps to cultivate […]
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Rev. 4, After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and
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Matthew 11:11 NASB95 Truly I say to you, among those born of women, there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. What an amazing statement for Jesus to make. John the Baptist was the last
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Matthew 11:1-6 NASB95 When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. [2] Now when John, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples [3] and said to Him, “Are You the Expected One, or shall
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Matthew 11:1-6 NASB95 When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. [2] Now when John, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples [3] and said to Him, “Are You the Expected One, or shall
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In Romans 7:14–25, Paul, referring to his struggle with the power of sin in his life, uses a first-person singular pronoun 36 times. Throughout those 11 verses, the word “I,” “my,” and “me” dominate the narrative. In verse 25 Paul uses the phrase “I myself,” which is a perfect description of the kind of life
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“For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ (in union with Christ) and God. When Christ, who is our life, is manifested, then you will be revealed with Him in glory.” – Colossians 3:3 – 4. When your self-consciousness is that you are in Christ, then you see everything
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Matthew 11:25-30 NASB95 At that time, Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. [26] Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. [27] All things have been handed over to Me
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Eternal life is “the age to come kind of life” lived in the here and now by Him through us. We, as Christians, are seated in heavenly places; therefore, the reality of heaven isn’t just something we are waiting for one day. It is an experience, at least at some level, that we enjoy now
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Religion says, “become what you would be with the help of God.” The gospel says, be what you’ve already become by the grace of God.” Where He said “It is finished,” is where we begin in the Christian life. We don’t contend with God for it all; we begin with it all in Christ, and
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