October 12, 2025
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Simply put Christ’s dying, burial and resurrection was His ultimate serving of us. He calls us therefore to serve one another. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 NKJV
October 05, 2025
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Because of God's grace, we receive the forgiveness of God. What is our response to God for all that He has done for us? Should it not be complete surrender, complete sacrifice and complete submission to do His will? May we all be compelled to thank Him and then lift up our praise with Jude, " Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever.
Amen. Jude 24,25 NKJVSeptember 28, 2025
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One of the most difficult things to understand in life is that God is being good to us all the time even in our lowest and most troublesome moments. But we must obey God, trust in His goodness, and believe that He is going to hold us up and that it's going to be okay. David wrote, “Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, Until these calamities have passed by. I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me.” Psalm 57:1,2 NKJV
September 14, 2025
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Praise God our Father for His capacity, willingness and mercy to forgive our sins. When we sin our relationship with God is hindered. However, it is great to know that when we repent and ask God for forgiveness, He will grant it to us! His forgiveness is based on the fact that His Son, Jesus has already paid the punishment for our sin on the cross and rose again. "For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You." Ps. 86:5 NKJV “If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O LORD, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.” Ps. 130:3,4 NKJV
September 07, 2025
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What do you do if you feel depressed or discontent with a situation in which you find yourself? How do you find contentment? Do you look to the Lord, or do you look to something else? Do you look to something artificial to try to take care of your need or do you turn to the Lord Jesus and say, "I thirst."? Only Christ can satisfy our souls. Nothing else and nobody else will or can satisfy our deep spiritual needs. May the Lord create in us a greater hungering and thirsting for Himself and then may we be assured that the Lord will satisfy our hungering and thirsting with Himself. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6 NKJV
August 31, 2025
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Communion is a solemn celebration of Jesus Christ. It points to His physical pain on the cross and to His spiritual suffering. When Jesus was on the cross, He became sin for us. God, His Father turned away from Him and Christ suffered the great ache of being abandoned by God. Communion is a time to celebrate the great work of Christ on the cross. Because He took the punishment for our sins and rose again, we can be saved from our sins by repenting and asking Christ to forgive us. Communion is a solemn celebration, and it is only for those who have already accepted Christ as their Savior and are walking in fellowship with Him .“ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.” I Cor. 11:26 NKJV
August 24, 2025
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Justification is the act of God whereby He declares believing and repentant sinners not guilty and righteous. Man can never be justified before God on his own merits or in his own abilities. Only God can justify man to Himself. Man needs to be justified (declared righteous) by God because man is a sinner needing an escape from the wrath of God. Man is justified by God and receives salvation when he repents and places his faith in the Lord Jesus. When Christ was on the cross He got all of our sin. Upon belief in Him we get all His righteousness! Theologians call this the divine transaction. Praise God! "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21 - NKJV
August 17, 2025
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The church is called the body of Christ and each believer is a part of that Body. The church is also the bride of Christ and receives and responds to Christ's great love for her. The church is also a holy temple that God is building. A main purpose of the church is to accomplish God’s work on the earth as Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:19,20 “that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” NKJV
August 10, 2025
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Jesus is always calling us to a deeper commitment to Him. When we think we have given Him our all He will by His Holy Spirit reveal another area in our life that needs to be handed over to His rule and reign. How many of us can say that we are always on the altar, not living for ourselves but unto Him who died for us and rose again? Let us by God’s grace always be willing to dedicate ourselves to God to deeper levels of obedience to Him. Jesus commanded us in Luke 9:23b,24 “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” NKJV
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