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Christmas Q&A
Read more: Christmas Q&AQ: Why do we celebrate Christmas? A: Jesus’ Birth is celebrated. The famous passage in Luke 2:11 gives us the picture of what we celebrate: “11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” – Luke 2:11 Christmas should cause us to leap for…
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Christmas: A Time to Praise Mary or God? (Luke 1:28-42)
Read more: Christmas: A Time to Praise Mary or God? (Luke 1:28-42)Tis the season for praise and worship. As I was looking into the praises we sing at Christmas time, I was shocked to find a whole collection of praises to Mary called the Marian prayers. After 1050 AD, parts of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) took Luke 1:28-42 to justify the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer, which…
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Thanksgiving: A Lesson from Our Grandparents
Read more: Thanksgiving: A Lesson from Our GrandparentsI love grandparents. They are full of wisdom and weird stories of a time when life– for better or worse– was different. We could certainly learn a lot from them about how they were thankful in hard times, but that’s not what I have in view here. Rather, it is how our grandparents always, without…
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2 Certain Truths in Uncertain Times
Read more: 2 Certain Truths in Uncertain Times“Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your hearts before him.”Psalm 62:8 Reading the book of Psalms is encouraging. It is the book that has always been a great source of blessing to God’s people throughout history. It echoes a variety of personal experiences, struggles, disappointments, and fears which the psalters experienced…
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General Revelation: God Revealed
Read more: General Revelation: God RevealedHave you ever wondered if God is real? And how we can be sure of that? We are all looking for explanations about God, and the reason is because deep in our hearts we already know the answer. We look at nature and all of creation and cannot be anything less than skeptical about the…
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2 Reasons to Rejoice in God!
Read more: 2 Reasons to Rejoice in God!“For our heart shall rejoice in Him.” Psalm 33:21 Psalm 33 is a call for God’s people to sing and rejoice. The Psalter provides several reasons. Let’s talk about two. “When life hits us hard, pondering on God’s providence in our past brings nothing but comfort and rest to our weary souls.” First, God’s people…