What if someone wrote your biography on the basis of your checkbook or your income-tax returns? What might they say about you, your loyalties, your focus, and about whom you serve?
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The vitality and growth of Christ’s church is not rooted in the shifting sands of cultural trends but the living and abiding word of God.
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Much has been sensationalized about the return of Jesus in our modern age. From countless predictions claiming to know the precise day and time of His appearing, to books designed to frighten with the fear of being “left behind,” to movies featuring secret comings and shadowy signs, there is much that misleads and deceives.
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our coming King, Jesus Christ. In this holy season of Advent—these days of yearning hope, sober repentance, and steadfast prayer—we find ourselves living amid times that strain the heart.
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“The Word became flesh” (John 1:14)—it’s a simple summary of what Christmas is all about. But it also points us to Easter and everything in between. It’s the miraculous story of how the Word of God came into our flesh and blood, into our hurts and heartaches, into our foolishness and frailty, to live as one of us in order to redeem all of us.
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You can get yourself in trouble when you set out to confess the Word of God. Take Stephen, for instance (see Acts 6 & 7). He had a holy calling, yet it was pretty ordinary and mundane. He and six other men had been divinely appointed to relieve the Apostles of waiting on tables, so they could focus on prayer and the ministry of the Word.
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