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Lovers of Self
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Self-love is heralded as the accepted religion of our day. The Roman Empire had its religio-licita, and today's West has its own. To love the self is the greatest of all religions for many of earth's inhabitants today.
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Be Shaped by Jesus' Compassion
(Mark 8:1-10)
If this episode sounds familiar, it's because Jesus has already fed a large crowd of five thousand earlier in Mark (6:30-44). And there are many similarities between this miraculous feeding and the first—a deserted setting, Jesus' compassion on the crowd, the dividing of bread and fish, and leftovers of bread. But there are also many differences between the two episodes. (5 Minutes/1300 Words)
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Walk in Truth – Continue in the Spirit’s Teaching
(1 John 2:26-27)
John wants us to, first, consider the season we are in. Second, he wants us to confess Jesus as the Son. Third, and finally, we learn in these verses, he wants us to continue in the Spirit's teaching. (6 Minutes/1500 Words)
Read moreThis week, in Exodus Chapter 18, Moses is going to interact with his father-in-law, a man named Jethro, and receive important counsel from this man. This counsel is going to impact generations of the people of Israel. And Chapter 19 of Exodus begins the process of God delivering the law to the people of Israel from Mount Sinai.
Read moreGod is greater than all gods. No one can compete with God. No ideology, no man, no movement, no religion, no god of our making. No goal or mindset or mentality that is contrary to him is greater than him. God is the greatest. This is the sentiment that we should come away with in studying Exodus chapter seven through 13. When looking at the plagues that God unleashed upon ancient Egypt in order to deliver his people, Israel, from their captivity and from their slavery. So today we're going to begin, actually, looking at God delivering these plagues upon Egypt through his man, Moses
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3 Protections For Today's Believers
Part 3
(1 John 2:18-27)
John wants us to, first, consider the season we are in. Second, he wants us to confess Jesus as the Son. Third, and finally, we learn in these verses, he wants us to continue in the Spirit's teaching. (6 Minutes/1500 Words)
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Truth Can Be Acquired
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One mark of the last days is a perception that one cannot arrive at any real conclusions about God. Some will be "always learning, never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7). But the truth can be found; knowledge, as our proverb states, can be acquired. (1 Minute/300 Words)
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Read God's Will
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God looked, during the prophet Zephaniah’s era, for those who would seek and inquire of him, but he found none. Instead, what he saw was a people who sought their hearts, their feelings, and their desires. (1 Minute/300 Words)
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Lovers of Self
(2 Timothy 3:1-2)
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,” (2 Timothy 3:1–2 ESV). He wrote it like it's a bad thing. Why? Because it is. Paul said that, in the last days, times of difficulty would arise. All kinds of chaos will unleash. The first one mentioned? "People will be lovers of self." (2 Minutes/600 Words)
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Our ancient Hebrew pilgrim, readying himself for the journey to Jerusalem, wanted God in his life. He wanted God every day, not only during the three annual feasts at the temple. He understood, though, how limited his everyday experience with God would be if he didn't go to Jerusalem. If he never gathered with other believers to worship God, he'd experience less of God than he craved. (20 Minutes/5000 Words)
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