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Daily Devotional – Thursday, November 16, 2017
Living Stones – Thursday, November 16, 2017 Guest list John 2:2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. When putting together a wedding, or any other event for that matter, the issue of the guest list is a big deal. Many a wedding nearly ended before
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Living Stones – Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Just do it John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” With my tendency to see drama everywhere, I imagine Mary shrugging off the protests from her son Jesus and instructing the servants as she walked
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Living Stones – Tuesday, November 14, 2017 Saving the best for last John 2:10 “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!” “Save the Best for Last” is a 1992
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Daily Devotional – Monday, November 13, 2017
Living Stones – Monday, November 13, 2017 God of the miracle John 2:11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. The wedding in Cana, recorded only by John, in chapter 2 verses 1 to 11 of his
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Disrupting church
Saturday, November 11, 2017 Disrupting church Mark 1:23 Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. Mark begins his Gospel account at breakneck speed, compressing extended events into single sentences and by the twenty-first verse of the first chapter of his account there is a major
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Daily Devotional – Friday, November 10, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, November 10, 2017 Faith for healing Luke 5:20 “When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” We are still meditating on the story of the forgiveness and healing of the paralytic man, recorded by Luke in his Gospel account
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Daily Devotional – Thursday, November 9, 2017
Living Stones – Thursday, November 9, 2017 Strange things Luke 5:26 “… they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!” In the Gospel recorded by Luke, chapter 5 verses 17 to 26 we have a very well known
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Living Stones – Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Supplication Ephesians 6:18 “… praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—” It is difficult to end consideration of this verse without trying to wrap our minds
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Living Stones – Tuesday, November 7, 2017 Pray for me Ephesians 6:18, 19 “… being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me …” I don’t know about you, but I have gone through many moments of shame or embarrassment when, having
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Daily Devotional – Monday, November 6, 2017
Living Stones – Monday, November 6, 2017 War prayer Ephesians 6:18 “… praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints …” In the closing sections of his letter to the Ephesian Christian the Apostle
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Daily Devotional – Saturday, November 4, 2017
Living Stones – Saturday, November 4, 2017 Speaking in songs Ephesians 5:19 “… speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, …” The church described in the pages of the New Testament is a very strange and
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Daily Devotional – Friday, November 3, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, November 3, 2017 Fellowship Hebrews 10:25 “… not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another …” There is a lot of dead routine in church. People come to church with low to no expectations, for the liturgy
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Daily Devotional – Thursday, November 2, 2017
Living Stones – Thursday, November 2, 2017 Identity Theft Mark 8:27 “Who do men say that I am?” People have been messing with others’ identity for as long as there has been society. Identity is fundamental to our sense of self and our self-esteem, and our identity locks into our
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Living Stones – Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Pruning John 15:2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” Well, now it gets tough for the fruitful branches. We understood that the branches
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Living Stones – Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Abiding John 15:4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” In the passage about the vine and fruitfulness, John 15:1-8, the
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Daily Devotional – Monday, October 30, 2017
Living Stones – Monday, October 30, 2017 Fruitfulness in design John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” In the Genesis account of creation, God is recorded as addressing
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Daily Devotional – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Living Stones – Saturday, October 28, 2017 Church business John 2:16 “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” The events that are our focus today, John 2:13-18, seem to come right after Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding at Cana in Galilee. Quickly
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Daily Devotional – Friday, October 27, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, October 27, 2017 Help my unbelief Mark 9:24 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Continuing from yesterday, the desperate father’s response to Jesus helped us recognised that it is possible for us to believe and still
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Daily Devotional – Thursday, October 26, 2017
Living Stones – Thursday, October 26, 2017 My unbelief Mark 9:24 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” We sometimes talk about faith and belief so glibly that it is assumed that these come easily. The opposite is often true. Genuine
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Daily Devotional – Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Living Stones – Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Take Jesus at His word John 4:50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. The high ranking royal official to whom Jesus is speaking
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Daily Devotional – Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Living Stones – Tuesday, October 24, 2017 The Christian Infant Ephesians 4:14 “… we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting …” The Apostle Paul, writing here to
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Handling the glare
Living Stones – Monday, October 23, 2017 Handling the glare John 3:18-21 “He who believes in Him [Jesus] is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation,
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Daily Devotional – Saturday, October 21, 2017
Living Stones – Saturday, October 21, 2017 Some of every kind Matthew 13:47-50 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the
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Daily Devotional – Friday, October 20, 2017
Living Stones – Friday, October 20, 2017 All for one Matthew 13:45-46 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.” Today’s parable, on the face of