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Most Wonderful Time of the Year
December 1 Most Wonderful Time of the Year 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 to
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Denied entry
Republished Thursday, July 16, 2020 Friday, January 19, 2018 Denied entry This devotional is being republished for our Guyanese audience especially in the wake of the Government of the United States of America taking action to deny entry to some Guyanese government officials. “At a press briefing on Wednesday July
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Church house (updated)
Updated June 24, 2020 Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Church house 1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house. (NIV 1984) In some parts of the United
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Future fathers
Sunday, June 21, 2020 Future fathers Genesis 4:20-22 Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute. And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain,
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House ministry
Monday, June 15, 2020 House ministry Acts 20:20 You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. (NIV 1984) Inevitably, culture affects the way religion is practiced. In this regard, western culture has
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Comforter
Thursday, May 21, 2020 Comforter Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Death, grief, and suffering strike every home and family at one point or the other. My cousins and I, in my generation of the family, have had too much experience with death. My
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Mother Hen
Sunday, May 10, 2020 Mother Hen Matthew 23: 37b “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” Today
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Proximity
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Proximity Mark 1:41 “Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”” COVID-19 is changing everything about everything. All of the ways we have done things in the lifetime of almost every person alive
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Death-ready
Friday, April 24, 2020 Death-ready 1 Corinthians 15:55 “O Death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?” Someone messaged me this week and said that “although death represents the logical – temporal – culmination of the journey we’re on, very few people truly make the appropriate spiritual
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Calamity and hope
Monday, April 13, 2020 Calamity and hope Luke 24:5,6 “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!” By Sunday morning, the followers of Jesus had started to come to grips with the fact that He was dead. They had had the whole
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Graveclothes abandoned
Sunday, April 12, 2020 Graveclothes abandoned John 20:6,7 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.
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Burial rituals
Saturday, April 11, 2020 Burial rituals John 19:40 “Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.” As I was writing this yesterday, Good Friday, the global death toll from this novel coronavirus
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Bloody love
Hebrews 9:22 - Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. (ESV) The crucifixion site has been cleaned up, just like we eventually do with every crime scene. Go there now and there is no wood,
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Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Mark 14:29 - Peter said to Him, “Even if all are made to stumble, yet I will not be.” Peter is one of the most colourful people we meet in the New Testament. Peter says exactly what he feels and what he means. What you see is what you get
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Hosanna Now!
Sunday, April 5, 2020Hosanna Now! John 12:12,13The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna!” Today, millions of people around the world are
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Parousia
Matthew 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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Pandemonium
Monday, March 23, 2020Pandemonium Luke 21:26… men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth … The COVID-19 Pandemic, caused by the out of control spread of the virus properly known as SARS Coronavirus 2, is causing global pandemonium. As far
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Wind and waves
Mark 4:39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. (NIV)
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Self-testing
Monday, September 02, 2019 Self-testing 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? –unless indeed you are disqualified. If you are like me, at that stage of life where just staying alive
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Xmas
Monday, December 10, 2018 Xmas Luke 2:1,2 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own
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Body ministry
Thursday, November 1, 2018 Body ministry 1 Corinthians 12:18 God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. (NIV 1984) The apostle Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, pushes the idea of the human body being a structure
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Bodily functions
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Bodily functions 1 Corinthians 12:22-24 … those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable
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House ministry
Monday, October 29, 2018 House ministry Acts 20:20 You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. (NIV 1984) Inevitably, culture affects the way religion is practiced. In this regard, western culture has
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Body boss
Thursday, September 20, 2018 Body boss 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. The Corinthian society, during the time of the early church, was