Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ. —2 John 1:3 Grace. Mercy. Peace. Awesome gifts. Grace is the undeserved favor of God. Mercy is the unmerited compassion of God. Peace is the unequaled gift of God—conferred when the […]
Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. —1 John 5:21 “You shall have no other gods before me,” was the first commandment, and the second was, “You shall not make for yourself an idol” (Exo. 20:3, 4). God doesn’t
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! —1 John 3:1 In the ancient world an adopted child had all the rights of a birth child. Natural-born
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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins. —1 John 1:9 You have to admire King David, for when he was confronted with his sin he immediately confessed, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And you have to love God,
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The blood of Jesus Christ … cleanses us from all sin. —1 John 1:7 Martin Luther had a dream in which he saw a hideous fiend writing his sins on the walls of his room. Sins of thought, word, and deed. Known sins and secret sins. When the ogre was done Martin
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You ought to live holy and godly lives. —2 Peter 3:11 When Ludwig Nobel died in 1888 a French journalist mistakenly thought the deceased was Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and posted a front-page story calling him, “The dynamite king! Merchant of
Grace and peace be yours in abundance. —2 Peter 1:2 A greeting of “peace” appears near the beginning of all but four New Testament letters. The God of peace gives you gifts of peace. Here are four of them … The
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. —1 Peter 5:7 The Living Bible translates today’s text this way: “Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.” God is concerned about your concerns. He wants
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Hope Solo is impossible! Hope was Goalkeeper for Team USA that won the 2015 Women’s World Cup. She guards her territory with a sneer and dives like she’s on springs instead of cleats. She played every minute of the seven-game World Cup tournament, had five shutouts and an outlandish 567 minute stretch where she didn’t
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Christ died for sins once for all. —1 Peter 3:18 The call from his son was urgent. He was behind on his mortgage payments and had received notice of foreclosure unless full remittance was received by 10 o’clock the following morning. So dad overnighted a check to the
