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Humilitas | A Life Hack
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interest of the others. Philippians 2:3-4 NIV The reason Paul told the church to do nothing out of selfish...
Winning The Battle Of Our Minds | A Life Hack
For as a man thinketh, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 KJV The mind is a battlefield: We are engaged in a war. Our enemy is Satan. The battlefield is the mind. The devil works diligently to set up strongholds in our mind. He does it through strategy and deceit; through well...
The Road To Emmaus
Passion Play, Act 10, Scene 2 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. And, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Luke 24:21 On that same day two of Jesus' followers were going to a village named Emmaus, about...
Sunday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
The Empty Tomb Early Sunday morning one of the friends comes back with rags and a jug of water and a box of the grave spices that are supposed to cut down on the smell. She’s braced for the task. But when she comes to the grave she finds that the linens have been...
Saturday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
A Day Like Any Other It is the Jewish Sabbath. The city is quiet. The air above the city lacks the usual thousand little trails of smoke from cookfires. Hymns rise from the temple. Families are indoors. The soldiers are back in their barracks. The Chief Priest grows...
Friday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
The Veil Is Torn Asunder In His last hours Jesus uttered seven statements that have become known as the Seven Last Words Of Christ: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in paradise. Woman, behold Thy...
Thursday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
Passover: A Drama In Three Acts Act 1: The Last Supper Jesus knows His time as Son of Man on earth is nearing an end. It is time for the Passover. He instructs His disciples to prepare the Passover meal: On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the...
Wednesday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
The Betrayal: Let's Make a Deal The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is also called Passover, was approaching. The leading priests and teachers of religious law were plotting how to kill Jesus, but they were afraid of the people's reaction. Then Satan entered into...
Tuesday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
It is Passion Week. Tuesday finds Jesus continuing to teach. By Whose Authority? When Jesus returned to the Temple and began teaching, the leading priests and elders came up to him. They demanded, to know by whose authority He had thrown out the merchants the day...
Monday, Jerusalem, circa AD 33
In this final week before Passover, Jesus went to the temple every day to teach and heal. He knew that the time available for His earthly mission was running short. And His human patience was also running short. We witness an example of righteous anger. On Monday...
The Confession of Confessions
So God raised Him up to the highest place and gave Him the name above all. So when His name is called, every knee will bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the...
Consider The Ravens
Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no...
Knowing God (Note 1)
I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous hesed love; (Note 2) and, as all God’s children should, may you be able to feel and understand how...
The Christian Mission Statement
A Christian's mission statement is "to know God through humble fellowship with Him in Christ, to be transformed by His hesed love, and to reveal His glory to the world by making disciples and proclaiming the Gospel." To know God:With what shall I come before the Lord?...
Eternal Life
And behold, a lawyer (an expert in religious law) stood up to put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus replied, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And the lawyer answered, "You shall love the Lord your...
The Waterfront Of Sin
Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithfulness; according to the greatness of Your compassion, wipe out my wrongdoings. Wash me thoroughly from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my wrongdoings, and my sin is constantly before me. Against You, and...
Small Groups and Discipleship Groups: Community is Essential. Formation is Intentional.
In everyday church life, small groups (sometimes called life groups, community groups, or connect groups) and discipleship groups (also known as D-groups, life-on-life groups, or accountability groups) often overlap such that the distinction between them becomes...
Clarity Over Agreement
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them, because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the naive and...
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