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Daily Devotional – Thursday, January 11, 2018
Living Stones – Thursday, January 11, 2018 Words for faith John 5:47 “But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” Faith without word is dead. Ultimately, our faith is in Jesus, the Son of God who came to die for our sins and who,
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Living Stones – Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Words matter John 8:30 As He spoke these words, many believed in Him. Many people today have faith, but their faith is in faith, their faith is in the idea of faith. For these persons, having faith seems to be a very good
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Living Stones – Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Do one thing Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of
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Daily Devotional – Monday, January 8, 2018
Living Stones – Monday, January 8, 2018 Reputation Matthew 9:11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Today’s political, corporate, and even religious reputation is carefully curated through a series of well-planned appearances, carefully orchestrated photo-ops,
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Matthew challenge
Living Stones – Saturday, January 6, 2018 The Matthew Challenge Matthew 9:10 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. Just before Jesus faced those questions about fasting, he had
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Daily Devotional – Friday, January 5, 2018
Living Stones – Friday, January 5, 2018 Wedding food Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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Daily Devotional – Thursday, January 4, 2018
Living Stones – Thursday, January 4, 2018 No patching Matthew 9:16 “No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.” When Jesus was asked the question about fasting, Matthew 9:14-17, He gave a
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Living Stones – Wednesday, January 3, 2018 Winepress Matthew 9:17 “But they put new wine into new wineskins” New wine is what was put into new wineskins for the fermentation process to begin. But new wine is itself the result of a process. The production of new wine was an
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Living Stones – Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Wineskins Matthew 9:17 “Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” This strange reply that Jesus
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Daily Devotional – Monday, January 1, 2018
Living Stones – Monday, January 1, 2018 New wine Matthew 9:17 “… they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” A toast to the New Year! Many of us are looking back on how hard last year was, thinking that we really survived it on crumbs, yet,
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Daily Devotional – Saturday, December 30, 2017
Living Stones – Saturday, December 30, 2017 Contradictions Luke 2:35 “yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also” Simeon made a prophetic declaration, one of many made in the early chapters of Luke and Matthew as they weaved the birth narrative into the historical, religious, cultural, social and
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Daily Devotional – Friday, December 29, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, December 29, 2017 Departing in peace Luke 2:29 “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace …” In Guyana, every year on Christmas Day the media rush to the hospitals to take photographs of the Christmas Day babies and their mothers. Often, corporate representatives
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Daily Devotional – Thursday, December 28, 2017
Living Stones – Thursday, December 28, 2017 Confirming witnesses Luke 2:33 And Joseph and His mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him. The annual recounting of the birth narratives from the Gospel records of Matthew and Luke are so familiar that after a while we stop discovering
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Living Stones – Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Eyes have seen Luke 2:25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. There are some people who are a
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Living Stones #100 – Tuesday, December 26, 2017 Fleshing out John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The Apostle John, writing his Gospel account, does not
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Daily Devotional – Monday, December 25, 2017
Living Stones – Monday, December 25, 2017 Incarnation Philippians 2:5-7 [Christ Jesus], who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. We must
December 25, 2017 by Pastor Alex -
Daily Devotional – Saturday, December 23, 2017
Living Stones – Saturday, December 23, 2017 Good man Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. Guys want to marry a virgin. Good, we got that out of the way quickly.
December 23, 2017 by Pastor Alex -
Daily Devotional – Friday, December 22, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, December 22, 2017 Faithful, prayerful Luke 1:13 “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; In the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, the novel’s protagonist Atticus Finch, tells the narrator, his daughter Scout that, “You never really understand
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Daily Devotional – Thursday, December 21, 2017
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Living Stones – Thursday, December 21, 2017 Silence Luke 1:13 … the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Living Stones – Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Scandalous Matthew 1:5-6 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. Matthew crammed thousands of years of human
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Living Stones – Tuesday, December 19, 2017 Who begot whom Matthew 1:5,6a Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David the king. Yesterday we began looking at the context in which the birth of Jesus took place in order to properly
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Daily Devotional – Monday, December 18, 2017
Living Stones – Monday, December 18, 2017 Who begot Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: So, it is about that time of the year when folks everywhere are celebrating Christmas. For some, this is a time set aside
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Daily Devotional – Saturday, December 16, 2017
Living Stones – Saturday, December 16, 2017 God speaks John 11:49, 50 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not
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Daily Devotional – Friday, December 15, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, December 15, 2017 Spoken curses John 11:49, 50 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not
December 15, 2017 by Pastor Alex