Make me to know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me. Psalm 25:4-5a
The Parable of the Wineskins is recorded in three of the gospels: Matthew 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22, and Luke 5:33-39. For this article, we’ll use Luke as our base of exploration. Luke 5:33-39 – And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the …
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By Genesis 25, Abraham had died at the age of 175, and Isaac inherited all his flocks, servants, and personal wealth. Isaac is married to Rebekah, and they have twin boys, Jacob and Esau. The two siblings are at odds even before birth. Esau is the oldest, but Jacob comes out of the womb grasping …
RESURRECTION! R is for redemption. E is for eternal life. S is for the Spirit of God. U is for unity. R is for restoration and reconciliation. R is for righteousness. E is for evidence. C is for confidence. T is for transformation. Transformation is a beautiful word. It’s a word of hope—of possibility. When …
One of my favorite things to do is watch videos of furniture flips and home redesigns. I love a good before and after reveal. What is fascinating, however, is when they video the whole process and then present what might have taken many, many hours of hard work and compress it into a 3-minute video …
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Several years ago, I joined a group of people from our church on a mission trip to Honduras. One evening, we were all loaded up on a rickety old bus and transported to another village about half an hour away from where we were holding daily medical clinics and helping paint what would become a …
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