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This is my body
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 This is my body 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? Very often the real battle lines of the ages
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Sexy chicks
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 Sexy chicks 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. During the last few years, it’s been a joy and a privilege for me to work with
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Sex in the church
Monday, September 17, 2018 Sex in the church 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! Recently I sat down with a member of the worship
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Sexual stigma
Friday, September 7, 2018 Sexual stigma 1 Corinthians 5:9,10 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would
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Apostolic filth
Thursday, September 6, 2018 Apostolic filth 1 Corinthians 4:12,13 Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now. Some time ago, back in the 80’s, my pastor, Lee Miller, sent
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Call me Andy
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 Call me Andy 3 John 1:12 Demetrius has a good testimony from all, and from the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our testimony is true. The movie, The American President, is a 1995 romantic comedy-drama. In summary, President Andrew Shepherd,
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Remembering often
Friday, August 31, 2018 Remembering often 1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes. A few weeks when my friends for life gathered at my home for prayer and fellowship I missed the opportunity for
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Discerning the body
Thursday, August 30, 2018 Discerning the body 1 Corinthians 11:29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. As we continue to focus on the Lord’s Supper and conduct as we observe it, we have to confront
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Unworthy manner
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Unworthy manner 1 Corinthians 11:27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. It is not always easy to simply lift New Testament practice from the pages
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Formal fellowship
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Formal fellowship 1 Corinthians 11:22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise
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God of Comfort
Monday, August 27, 2018 God of Comfort 2 Corinthians 1:3,4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble,
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To and fro
Saturday, August 25, 2018 To and fro Ephesians 4:14 … that 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 … A lady sat in the office at church
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Words and rest
Friday, August 24, 2018 Words and rest Matthew 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Knowing what the genuine teaching of scripture and the basis of our faith in Jesus are, is particularly important. We must know what we
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Shepherds
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Shepherds John 21:16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.” Close to the end of his time physically
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Joint supplies
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Joint supplies Ephesians 4:16 (Christ) – from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Our key
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Like father like son
Monday, August 13, 2018 Like Father Like Son John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Jesus got into conflict with the Jewish leaders for healing a crippled man on the Sabbath. As they pressed Him Jesus responded with a
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Yolkfellows
Saturday, August 11, 2018 Yolkfellows Romans 15:1 (NIV 1984) We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. Today, when we speak of the 12 disciples, we
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Test the spirits
Friday, August 10, 2018 Test the spirits 1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Nicely put together words and high-sounding ideas are sometimes very deceptive. They sound so good
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Deceptive words
Thursday, August 9, 2018 Deceptive words 2 Peter 2:3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; It is truly surprising how often the first writing apostles referred to the challenge that false teachers pose to the church. It seems that, given its prevalence, they had to confront it
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Mockers
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Mockers Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. As I have been
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Peddlers
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Peddlers 2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ. These days there are more routes to starting a church or ministry, and
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Scars and stripes
Monday, August 6, 2018 Scars and stripes Galatians 6:17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. When you meet someone from the military, persons the Americans describe by the term “men and women in uniform,” you see
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Credentials
Saturday, August 4, 2018 Credentials Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. I was asked to participate in a National Faith Leaders Consultation later this week to talk about the church and its role in fighting for justice and against stigma
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Professional ministry
Friday, August 3, 2018 Professional ministry Matthew 4:18,19 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of