Easter Sunday is not just a spring holiday enjoyed with flowers and bunnies, but it is when Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. (Read Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, or John 20.) Apart from the resurrection, the Church would not exist and there would be no hope for Christians. The resurrection is the […]
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The biggest thing missing from someone who is not a Christian is not that they need more religious stuff going on in their lives or they need to be nicer – it’s that they need their relationship with God to be made right. It’s really, really great to be Christians together. And we want to
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Jesus is the point from which all things are directed and to which all things are focused. He is supreme, first, the center – we must live accordingly. This must be the reference point from which we understand everything else. Think ahead five years. Five years from now, what is going on in your life?
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There is no one else that images God like Jesus Christ does. There is no guru that you can follow like you can follow Jesus. There is no business leader, self-improvement tycoon that you can trust like you can trust Jesus. There is no human mentor that you can trust like Jesus. There is no
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We as Christians have access to so many deep riches in prayer – but we often barely scrape only the surface. Deeper Blessings What have you prayed about in the past few days? Have you thanked God for anything? If so, what have you thanked Him for? There are unfathomable depths of blessings that we’re swimming around in
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Beyond its significance for the new believer, baptism is a powerful reminder of the gospel for the entire church, strengthening the faith of believers, confronting the hypocrisy of nominal believers, and inviting non-believers to trust in Jesus. Colossians 1:21-23 lays out two essential elements of the ‘good news’: Apart from Jesus we are separated from
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