Yesterday the youth Sunday school class began a 7-week study of Titus with Titus 1:1-4. In this passage, Paul introduces himself. Note how clear and confident Paul is about his identity and mission. He knows who he is and what he’s about. Take a look: 1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, […]
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30I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, 31that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32so that by
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(By Dawn Rutan) I’ve encountered a similar thought in four different forms in the past couple weeks. The first was a quote from Henry Blackaby in Experiencing God, “Often sharing what God is doing in your life may help someone else encounter God in a meaningful way.” The second was from the sermon on Romans
This Sunday we’ll be singing one of my favorite songs, How Deep the Father’s Love for Us. A man named Stuart Townend wrote it in 1995. Here’s what he had to say about how he came to write it: I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up
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It has been difficult to watch the news lately. It’s difficult to see pictures of the people killed or injured in the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas explosion. How are we to respond to all of this? It makes me think of Job’s response in Job 1. Then Job arose and tore his robe
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22This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you. 23But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you, 24I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to
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