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Public display
Monday, April 9, 2018 Public display Colossians 2:15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead was a public display, a demonstration in the material world of what had taken place in the spiritual
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Seated with Him
Saturday, April 7, 2018 Seated with Him Ephesians 2:4-6 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together,
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Seated in the heavenlies
Friday, April 6, 2018 Seated in the heavenlies Ephesians 1:20 He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places When Jesus was raised from the dead He went and took a seat at God’s right hand in the heavenlies. We might wonder
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Resurrection power
Thursday, April 5, 2018 Resurrection power Ephesians 1:19,20 [that you man know] … the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead … The resurrection of Jesus Christ is
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Power
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Power John 19:10 Then Pilate said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?” The resurrection settled the power question once and for all. The powers that be who put
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Looking in the wrong place
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Looking in the wrong place 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
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Take off your graveclothes
Monday, April 2, 2018 Take off your graveclothes 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
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Evidence required
Saturday, March 31, 2018 Evidence required John 20:24,25 Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of
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Must die
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Must die John 1:11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. The 1970’s rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, received terrible reviews and deservingly so. The liberties that the writers and producers took with the story might have made good theatre in
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Dead dead
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Dead dead John 12:10,11 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. There is a debate going on right now in the newspapers in Guyana about the place
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Burial perfume
Monday, March 26, 2018 Burial perfume John 12:5 “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” There is a curious funeral tradition practised by some in Guyana where I live. On the day of the funeral, someone buys and brings a bottle
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Hosanna!
Saturday, March 24, 2018 Hosanna! John 12:12,13 The 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!” Tomorrow on the traditional Christian calendar is
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Newness of life
Friday, March 23, 2018 Newness of life Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. There often seems to be a
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Preaching the cross
Thursday, March 22, 2018 Preaching the cross 1 Corinthians 1:23 We preach Christ crucified There is a lot of good, inspired, and sincere preaching available today at churches as well as on radio, on television, and online. We could actually get a sermon on demand. But these sources also have
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Christ crucified
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Christ crucified 1 Corinthians 1:18 The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. The period we now refer to as Easter is coming. In churches all over, we will
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Someone had to die
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 Someone had to die Luke 9:22 The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. The account found in Luke 9:28-36 is referred to as the Transfiguration,
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Death row (old)
Monday, March 19, 2018 Death row Luke 9:30,31 And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Death row is a special section of a prison where prisoners who were
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Suffering
Saturday, March 17, 2018 Suffering 2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. Wait, what? Suffering? In today’s brand of feel-good, always healthy, prosperity preaching there is no place for suffering. We are walking in authority
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Comfort
Friday, March 16, 2018 Comfort 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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Choosing Joy
Thursday, March 15, 2018 Choosing Joy James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials … When you are going through difficult circumstances, the testing of your faith, and others come by and suggest that you should cheer up, or don’t cry, or things would
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Test of faith
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Test of faith Luke 7:20 When the men had come to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’” Faith in God is a beautiful thing. In the church, we read
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Expectations
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Expectations Luke 7:19 And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” We come to one of the most perplexing passages in the Gospels, Luke 7:18-23. John the Baptist, the
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Compassion
Monday, March 12, 2018 Compassion Luke 7:13 When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Jesus had a reputation for disrupting funerals whenever He encountered them. The case of this funeral at Nain, Luke 7:11-17, was no exception. In this incident,
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Christian infants
Saturday, March 10, 2018 Christian infants 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 … The Apostle Paul writing here, Ephesians 4:11-16, uses the