Category: Reflections on Scriptures
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There’s hope: “no one is cast off by the Lord forever”
November 14, 2011 Read: Lamentations 3:25-33 31 For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. This verse has been used as proof text for the belief that God will not abandon people in hell forever. But it’s context seems clear: it is meant for “those whose hope is in him, to…
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You can bloom among stones
November 13, 2011 Read: 1 Peter 3:8-17 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. Let’s get this straight: suffering for doing good is better than suffering for doing evil only if it is God’s will. The verse thus…
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Need a cure for a heart that grumbles?
November 12, 2011 Read: Exodus 15:22-27 On this supposed-to-be memorable day, the Lord provided the much needed water for the Israelites who were trekking the desert to the promised land. But just a couple of chapters later, they seem to have forgotten what God had done for them: “…they grumbled…
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Live like a believer
November 11, 2011 Read: Romans 8:31-39 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ…
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Jesus: Is he the only way?
November 10, 2011 Read: John 3:22-36 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. The reason why John the Baptist gives way to Jesus is because Jesus is the Messiah, God’s anointed Savior, and he is not.…
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To believe is to see…
November 9, 2011 Read: Luke 2:22-38 29 “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.” Simeon’s…
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He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.
November 8, 2011 Read: Romans 14:13-19 Although “the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,” Christians have quarreled over the issue of what or what not to eat or drink. What I find interesting is how the Apostle began in this chapter: “1 Accept the one whose faith…
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What are you willing to do to win the greatest prize?
November 7, 2011 Read: Philippians 3:8-17 What is it that the Apostle Paul is pressing on to take hold of? What is the prize he is trying to win? He tells us: “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him…
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Do not be afraid…
November 6, 2011 Read: Revelation 1:9-17 “When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last” (v.17). What are these comforting and assuring words for? Are they meant to…
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Another Kind of Peace
November 5, 2011 Read: John 14:19-27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (v. 27). The peace he gives, Jesus says, is different from the peace…
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