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Living Your Convictions
Daniel 1:8-14 Jesus prayed to His Father for His disciples: “Not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one” (John 17:15). The four young Israelites did not need...
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Gifts That Contribute
Daniel 1:15-21 Daniel’s experiment (vv. 11-14) was successful. The Chaldeans faithfully witnessed to their God, the God of Israel—creator and lover of all. This God, revealed even more fully in Jesus,...
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God Will Help
Isaiah 50:4-10 “The Sovereign Lord helps me” (v. 7). This little phrase makes a gigantic claim. Read it again. Is this your testimony? Have you heard other people make this claim? When part of our...
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God Examines Hearts
Jeremiah 17:7-14 Trusting in the Lord is foundational to a growing faith. Using language very similar to Psalm 1, the prophet Jeremiah paints a picture of the blessed way of life that flows from...
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Unity and Diversity
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 In a popular story from my upbringing, a trio of heroes would shout, “All for one, and one for all!” In 1 Corinthians 12, the apostle Paul insists we need understanding about...
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Sufficient Grace
2 Thessalonians 2:11-17 Second Thessalonians 11-12 describe what happens when people give themselves to the ways of this world that oppose God’s deep love for God’s creation and its flourishing. These...
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Can We Trust Our Dreams
Daniel 2:1-11 True story: A friend of mine called the other day to tell me he was quitting his job, selling his house, and moving to another state because of a dream he had. What would you tell him?...
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Ask For Time
Daniel 2:12-23 Daniel’s subtle wisdom in chapter 2 is often overlooked. Instead of panicking as the astrologers and soothsayers did when they were told by the king to perform an impossible task,...
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There Is A God Who Can
Daniel 2:24-28 King Nebuchadnezzar, an evil tyrant who has already sentenced others to die for their inability to tell him his dream and its meaning, demands of Daniel, “Can you tell me my dream and...
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Fear Not
Luke 21:10-19 As a child, sermons about the last days terrified me. The movie version was even more frightening! One year at camp, we watched “A Thief in the Night.” Chilling! Perhaps you are old...
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Instead of a Steed
Luke 21:10-19 Paintings of Jesus riding sidesaddle on a little donkey puzzled me as a child. I grew up watching cowboys on television, guns blazing, riding on big stallions. If Jesus had to have long...
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The Virtue of Wisdom
Ephesians 1:15-23 For some reason, even though wisdom is a dominant theme in Scripture, we Christians don’t seem to emphasize it. Maybe it is because no one knows what wisdom is. “Who among you is...
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The Constancy of Change
Psalm 107:33-43 To study nature is to observe change. Water freezes, melts, evaporates, and rains back down. Leaves turn from green to orange to brown. Long empty reservoirs are refilled to...
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Bow The Knee
Daniel 3:1-7 Imagine being in Babylon on the day when king Nebuchadnezzar called the people to the plain of Dura. The glitter of gold, the gathering of illustrious leaders, the murmur of various...
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Furious with Rage
Daniel 3:8-15 Daniel 3 demonstrates how a situation can be manipulated by deviousness and anger. The astrologers resemble the playground tattletales who are unwilling to openly confront their...
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This We Believe
Daniel 3:16-23 A furious Nebuchadnezzar was in a bind. He’d appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego as administrators over Babylon in response to Daniel’s earlier request (2:49). In the meantime, he...
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Unbound
Daniel 3:24-39 While there’s much to explore within the walls of the fiery furnace, one word leaps from the biblical page: “unbound.” Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were tied up, bound, and cast into...
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Two Great Assurances
Psalm 23:1-6 In July 2023, Peggy Jones was mowing a lawn in Texas when a snake fell from the sky and twisted itself around her arm. Moments later, a hawk swooped to recapture the snake, attacking Mrs....
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Greater Grace
Luke 14:25-35 Luke 14 is difficult to read. Why would Jesus ask us to hate our family? Even our own lives? Does Jesus really mean we should hate the baby in our arms, perhaps that same baby that He...
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The Bride of Christ
Revelation 21:1-8 The words in Revelation 21 are striking and memorable. A new heaven, new earth. He will wipe away every tear. I am making everything new. The Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. Yet...
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