Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? —John 11:40 Jesus delayed. Lazarus died. Lazarus’s sisters didn’t understand why Jesus hadn’t dropped everything and come running when he got their message that Lazarus was ill. “If you had been […]
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Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true. —John 10:41 John the Baptist had been dead for two years, but his influence was alive and well. He wasn’t remembered for his miracles, for
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Many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. —John 6:66 Jesus had some fair-weather followers who were gung ho for his healing and feeding, but not for his teaching. His miracles enthralled them, but his words galled them. What he offered they would not accept; what
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Those who seem least important now will be the greatest then. —Matthew 19:30 What was the kid’s name who shared his snack and with wide-eyed wonder saw a multitude fed from his lunch pail? What was the guy’s name who loaned Jesus his donkey for his final ride into Jerusalem? What
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Call upon me in the day of trouble. —Psalm 50:15 Homeownership isn’t an unmixed blessing. Something always needs to be repainted, repaired, or replaced. The paint peels, the toilet backs up, the AC gives out, the roof springs a leak. If you’re a homeowner, it hasn’t
Andy Rooney, best known for his weekly broadcast “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” at the end of CBS’s 60 Minutes, had the gift of saying so much with so few words. He died in 2011, but many of his words live on. In a piece entitled “I’ve Learned . . .” he noted twenty-seven
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Jesus himself came near and began walking with them. —Luke 24:15 She had no reason to think that this would be anything but another miserable day in her hopeless life. If you had told her that this was the day she would meet her Savior, she would have told
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He is able to help those who are being tempted. —Hebrews 2:18 Here are two sentences that tell you what Jesus has done for you: “[He] came to seek and to save the lost” (Lk 19:10). “[He] became a human and lived among us” (Jn 1:14). The operative word in the first sentence
The Lord needs it. —Luke 19:31 En route to Jerusalem for the last time, Jesus ordered two of his disciples, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there . . . Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are
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If you are thirsty, come to me and drink. —John 7:37 In John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian was journeying from the City of Destruction to Mount Zion when he came to the Hill Difficulty. The path up the hill was narrow
