“She will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 Recently I was speaking on Christmas from Joseph’s perspective, and we were taking a look at the names and their importance presented in Matthew 1:18-25. As a result, a very good question arose: “So, […]
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It can happen to the very best of people. It happened to Nicodemus. People are naturally prone to trust in themselves for entrance into heaven, i.e., they falsely trust in themselves, deeds, or religion; oddly this generally leads to spiritual pride. Nicodemus was the very personification of Bible knowledge, deeds, ceremonies, and religion, yet this
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Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 Due to a family tragedy, during the Civil War, a Brigadier General in the Army of the Potomac had been granted an audience with President Lincoln to
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He anoints my head with oil Psalm 23:5 Although I had regularly read and even recited it, I have to admit, initially I never fully understood what this part of Psalm 23 truly meant. Whereas it certainly includes God’s favor, to a shepherd in the ancient Near East, this idiom would have been layered with meaning,
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh, and since we have a great Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled
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As a mountain biker, I’ve come across a lot of unusual things in the desert: abandoned cars, Hohokam petroglyphs, mule deer, and windmills. Like a cottonwood tree, windmills are indicative that there’s a water source. Today we simply turn on the faucet and out comes the water, but just over a hundred years ago, you
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I recently discovered that I didn’t understand the correct meaning of the word sanguine. I had heard it many times but thought it meant sad or melancholy. However, as I did some research, I found I was quite mistaken. The word first and foremost is a color, “blood red.” Further, it means to be optimistic
Four decades after his death, Monticello, the custom built home by and for Thomas Jefferson, had begun to look like a haunted house. His eldest daughter, who inherited the home, simply didn’t have the resources to maintain the property in a recession nor overcome the debts needed for the restoration. Eventually she and the family
Tailgaters. We’ve all had the experience of someone being right on our bumper who eventually passes you at speeds that make you feel as if you’re standing still. On one, only one, occasion shortly after I was tailgated and passed, something amazing happened. A police officer pulled the vehicle over. I have to say it
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Do You Have Any Monster Locusts in Your Life? As a kid my friends and I nearly lived our lives around the Friday Night Creature Feature—A la “Fright Night”, which was a campy TV show that featured an old “monster movie”. One of the earliest ones that I can recall was about a scientist who,
