Thank you, Father, for your servants who have gone before me. Thank you for my children and their children. I remember their laughter and their tears. I remember their faces, and I long to see them again. They are scattered like the diaspora to many different states, but we maintain our connection through the Holy…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption….
Everlasting Father, you are the source of all knowledge, wisdom and grace. Let me stay grounded in your Word, taught by your Holy Spirit, the deposit entrusted to me and the One who seals me as your child. I ask in the name and authority of Jesus, according to your good and perfect will. Amen….
Today is a beautiful day, because the apostles were eyewitnesses, “So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with…
Almighty God, I depend fully on you. Grant me a heart of generosity, that I may take hold of that which is truly life. Forgive me when I fail you. Lift me when I stumble. I ask in humility, and with reverence for who you are, in the name and authority of Jesus, according to…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall…
Lord Jesus, my flesh pulls back in the face of this difficult command to fight the good fight. I avoid conflict. I can not maneuver around this one. Help me stand firm in the face of opposition by the strength of your Holy Spirit. Lord, come to my aid by the protection of your precious…
Today is a beautiful day, because Jesus is not in the tomb, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened….
This is the true story of a church in America’s Bible Belt, the First Christian Church in Florissant, Missouri–a church with a meager beginning and record of steady growth for forty-nine years until the weight of sexual abuse charges against a youth minister left it, and its congregation, broken. This is a case history and…
Loving Father, let others see Jesus in me. I ask in His precious name above all others, by His authority greater than any other, and by your good and perfect will. Amen. “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you…
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