“He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the […]
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I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended
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God Loves the Cattle One of the interesting sidelight points to the book of Jonah is God’s care for non-human aspects of his creation. At the end of this great book where God clearly manifests his love even for the lost, pagan, backwards, Gentile world and where God exposes the
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So you’re a non-religious skeptic and you’ve just received a flyer in the mail from a local church about coming to one of their Easter services. You’re tempted to just throw it in the garbage. Your mind says that you should explore this religion first before just rejecting it out
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In the days of the Roman empire, when Christians were arrested and commanded to burn incense to the emperor or go to their death, countless Christians were thrown to the wild beasts. Brave young women like Perpetua and Felicity firmly believed that worship belonged to Jesus Christ alone, the one
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For the Christian, managing your resources goes deeper than budgets, planning for the future, investing in the right places, and giving to worthy causes. Followers of Jesus have an altogether different starting point than the world when it comes to their finances: we believe that everything we have is the
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