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Aspirations of Mediocrity?
Isaiah 55:1–7 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me,…
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A Long Walk in a Peaceful Direction
Isaiah 2:1–5, The Message The Message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: There’s a day coming when the mountain of God’s House Will be The Mountain— solid, towering over all mountains. All nations will river toward it, people from all over set out for it. They’ll say, “Come, let’s climb God’s…
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Isaiah & You
Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, the edges of his robe filling the temple. Winged creatures were stationed around him. Each had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew about. They…
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The Prophets: Obadiah
During the month of September, we will focus on the Old Testament prophets. There is a notion that prophets are fortune tellers, revealers of the future. Though prophets often speak of the future, that is not their primary purpose. Prophets serve as God’s messengers of accountability when God’s people (and particularly the leaders of God…
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Love Changes Lives
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. The Sun Does Shine is Ray Hinton’s own autobiographical story. Hinton spent 30 years on death row for murders he did not commit because the white sheriff, the white judge,…
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Loving Life
Deut. 30:19-20 – “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! You can make this choice by loving the Lord your…
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Love When It’s Hard
Proverbs 25:21-22 and Romans 12:20 “If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads, and the Lord will reward you.” The message of this scripture really is straightforward. We are to love people that we…
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Love and Reputation
Proverbs 3:3-4: “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” Over the course of my life, I have known several people with the reputation of being extraordinary…
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Love Covers
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 I started out the focus on love by confessing that, although I know a lot about love, I struggle to actually live it out well. For that reason, I am comforted by the…
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