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Devotionals about Hope

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The Bad News about Worship . . .

Read: Amos 5:18-24 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! . . . But let justice roll down like waters. (vv. 18, 24) Today’s Scripture is hard to

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Did Not Our Hearts Burn within Us?

Read: Luke 24:30-35 He took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. (vv. 30-31) After preaching to

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Construction Site Sermons

Read: Jeremiah 1:4-10 I have put my words in your mouth. . . . to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to

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Remembering the Surprises

Read: Genesis 28:10-22 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” (v. 16) Encountering God was the last

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Sharing a Baptism

Read: Romans 6:3-8 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,

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Will They Let Me In?

Read: Psalm 15 O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? (v. 1) Athanasius of Alexandria once wrote, “If you wish to learn what

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Rejoicing Alongside Lament

Read: Ezra 3:10-13 The people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping. (v. 13) We like to think that our worship of

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It Starts with Praise

Read: Psalm 148 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created. (v. 5) Out of the silence of the darkness of nothingness, God spoke

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Gods of Plastic and Circuits

Read: Habakkuk 2:18-20 Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and