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Cast Your Cares

19/02/2017 0 Comment

1 PETER 5:7 AMPLIFIED
7 Casting the whole of your care — all your anxieties, all
your worries, all your concerns, once and for all — on Him;
for He cares for you affectionately, and cares about you
watchfully.

God is not just mildly interested in you. He cares for you just
as a good mother cares for her infant child — affectionately
and watchfully.

Would it be reasonable for a well-loved infant to worry?
Neither is it reasonable for you to worry when God loves you
and has promised to take c..

February 16

16/02/2017 0 Comment

Your name is ointment poured forth.
Song of Solomon 1:3
Morning
Your name is ointment poured forth.

Christ … has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. § Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious. § God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. § In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

If you love Me, keep My commandments. § The love ..

Christian in India Dies After Tribal Villagers Immerse Him, Wife in Cold Pond, Son Says

14/02/2017 0 Comment

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Jharkhand state, India last month succumbed to illnesses incurred when villagers immersed him and his wife in frigid water because they refused to deny Christ, relatives said.

Upset that his family had left their indigenous religion, tribal residents of Kubuaa village, Palamu District immersed Bartu Urawn and his wife up to their necks in a cold pond one night this winter, when temperatures can dip below freezing, from 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next mo..

Waging Peace – Matthew 5:9

13/02/2017 0 Comment

Key Passage”What great blessings there are for the people that work to bring peace! God will call them his sons and daughters.”
— Matthew 5:9 ERV (Read Full Text)
Key Thought”Wage Peace.” That's a fairly popular bumper sticker around our neck of the woods. It's the grown up version of the old Hippie song, “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” Deep in our hearts we know there is a tremendous difference between being a peace lover and a peace maker. Peace lovers like the calm and s..

What the Gospel Means for the Transgender Debate

10/02/2017 0 Comment

“This is who I really am.”

In those six simple words lies the heart of one of the most important and most controversial topics in our culture right now: gender identity. Such a sentence carries heavy meaning, especially for those who have suffered confusion and dissonance when it comes to gender and sexuality.

Our cultural conversations about transgenderism, gender dysphoria, and sexual identity matter not ultimately because of social or political implications, but because of what these issue..

How the Order of the Beatitudes Could Change Your Life

10/02/2017 0 Comment

Everyone wants to be blessed. We want to be blessed in our relationships, our businesses, and our churches. We want to be blessed in life, death, and eternity. The opposite of being blessed is being cursed—and nobody wants that.

No one knows where to find blessing better than Jesus does, so when he speaks about blessing in the beatitudes (Matt. 5:1–12), I want to listen, and so should you.

What does a blessed life look like? Is it having a happy marriage? Gifted children? Good health? Fulfilli..

How to Defend the Gospel from Its Enemies—and Friends

10/02/2017 0 Comment

If we believe that the truth of the gospel matters—and we who identify with TGC do—then how should we speak about, tweet about, and argue against false teachers who lead people away from the truth? And how do we talk about true teachers who mistakenly counteract their own theology?

Defending the gospel against both its enemies and, at times, its friends is not easy. On the one hand, we desire not to be cowards; on the other hand, we desire not to be provocateurs.

How can we find our way? Here ..

February 10

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The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light.
Luke 11:34
Morning
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your
eye is good, your whole body also is full of light.

The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. § Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

I am the light o the world. He who follows..

WORK TO ENTER REST

10/02/2017 0 Comment

Is. 26:3 – You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Let’s face it, the world is filled with trouble. People are filled with trouble, and if we aren’t careful, their troubles will swallow us up. It is a promise but a tricky endeavor to be in the world but not of it. Have you found the key to that kind of life? It boils down to this, you have to be filled with a supernatural peace to be unaffected by the world. How do you get there? That’s the tricky p..

How Art Moved Me Beyond the Cliché

09/02/2017 0 Comment

Have you ever felt stuck between reading Scripture as either too clichéd or too academic? Our Bibles seem clichéd when we’re reading familiar texts like John 3:16, Jeremiah 29:11, and Philippians 4:13, as the verses we memorized in Awana or see on billboards begin to wear thin.

Approaching Scripture in an overly academic manner runs to the opposite extreme, where we obsess over meaning but reach the same net effect: dullness of heart. We see this among pastors who treat the Bible like a job man..