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The Mother of All Yard Sales
Make me an offer folks! If I have it, it’s for sale. Everything from clothing to hand tools… come one, come all. It’s the mother of all yard sales! Just kidding. However, Jesus really did once tell a...
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Parable Purposes: Sowing Seeds
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will utter things hidden since...
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Parable Purposes: Safeguarding Secrets
“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken...
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Parable Purposes: Sovereignty, Salvation, and the Spirit
Why did Jesus teach in parables? We have seen that He did so to sow seeds of spiritual truths and to reveal secrets that only His friends would hear and understand. It is also the purpose of the...
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Here a Seed, There a Seed, Everywhere a Seed, Seed
A farmer went out to sow his seed. Matthew 13:3 This is how Jesus began His parable of the soils and the seed. Before reading the body of this text, I couldn’t resist hovering over the magnificent...
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Another Seed of Thought
A continuing thought from the parable series… Matthew 13. We can be a very discriminating people. I don’t mean to suggest we do it intentionally, but sub conscientiously, we tend to choose our...
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The Incredible Wisdom of 3 Bible Verses: understanding God’s Word
Matthew 4:23-25 (ESV) 23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. 24...
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Lightouse Notes: Showing Adam His Desire For Eve
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;...
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Jesus At Your Side
Anxiety is like a bullet It kills, steals and destroys That cuts you like a knife As a predator decoy’s He will try to shake your faith And he causes you to doubt As he whispers in your ear Forcing …...
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The Cross that Bids Me Deny
Reading the devotional, “Beside the Still Waters,” I was moved once again by Jesus’ words to His disciples, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me...
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In Through the Out Door
Oxymoron… It’s a funny name and it often makes for funny jokes. Such as, why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? It makes me think things such as “acute dullness, baggy tights, and eyes...
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Too Fast to Fast
In the sixth chapter of his account of the gospel, Matthew begins by quoting Jesus’ words of warning against doing good things for the wrong reasons. He says, “Beware!” Moreover, when you fast, do not...
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HE LIFTS US UP: FORGIVING—is Not Forgetting (Matthew 18:21-22)
FORGIVING–It is not forgetting. One of the big mistakes that I made as a victim of abuse was not only trying to forgive, but also trying to forget. You see, when you forget something, you actually...
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I Love This and I Love That But What Do I Love Most
MATTHEW 22:37-38 37. Jesus replied:”’ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind’ 38. This is the first and greatest commandment.” Now I have to admit that I’ve...
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HE LIFTS US UP: This should “Be (our) Attitudes”… (Matthew 5:3-12)
We are all different…. but we all want to be blessed. We come from different backgrounds, different cultures, and even different countries. However, we are all human. With that, we all have desires to...
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Three Steps Forward ~ SoS Saturday
How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; Your hair is like a flock of goats That have descended from Mount Gilead. Song of Songs 4:1 Before...
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