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In John 3, Nicodemus has come to Jesus for some answers. Nicodemus is a good Pharisee, a good teacher. He’s had the right training. He’s ...
In John 3, Nicodemus has come to Jesus for some answers. Nicodemus is a good Pharisee, a good teacher. He’s had the right training. He’s ...
How well do people know you? I think we go through life and we kind of like our privacy. We don’t want people to know ...
It is estimated there were 2.5 million people in Jerusalem that day. They had returned from all over the world for the Passover Feast. And ...
In John 6:53, Jesus says something which jars his followers. He says, “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and ...
Psalm 146 starts: “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!” Praise is an integral part of worship. Israel knew that. That is why ...
Well, it’s Christmas. Merry Christmas. I pray that this day will be blessed for you, filled with peace and hope. The Christmas story in Luke ...
Waiting. That’s something we’re not very good at, is it? Much of our technology today is designed to keep us from waiting. We get ...
The Psalms often have a short statement at the beginning, sometimes identifying their composer, sometimes with a musical or liturgical instruction, sometimes with a description ...
During this devotional I would like to think about what we look at and what we should be looking at, using a passage from 2 ...
What do we really need? In Paul’s first letter to Timothy he sets it out in Chapter 6. He says what we need is to ...
In Mark, Jesus begins his ministry with a bang. His first act of ministry after his baptism, his temptation, and the calling of his disciples ...
In Luke Chapter 7, verses 11-17 Jesus tells his disciples and us about prayer and forgiveness. There are some familiar things in this passage, aren’t ...
Our very existence is based on rhythm. There is the beat, beat, beat of the heart, absolutely necessary for our lives – when that stops, ...
Do you believe in Easter? Do you believe in the resurrection? Some say, seeing is believing. Much of the description of the resurrection in chapter ...
I grew up as the son of missionaries in Pakistan, and when we were on furlough in the U.S. my parents would go to churches ...
In Luke 15:1-7 there is the parable of the lost sheep. A shepherd has 100 sheep, and as he’s out there in the wilderness, he ...
A few years ago I visited St. Petersburg, Russia, the city the Czar Peter the Great had built on the delta of the Neva River. ...
In Ephesians 2:8-10 Paul says, “For by grace you have been saved, and this is not your doing, it is the gift of God — ...
Psalm 146 tells us we should praise the Lord in everything we do, as long as we live, for the Lord is the one we ...
In Philippians 4:6-9 Paul gives us a four-step process to handling life, not only when things are easy, but especially when things are tough as ...
What do you think of Nicodemus? He’s kind of an interesting guy, isn’t he? John tells us that he was a Pharisee, a leader of ...
In his letter to the Romans, Paul sets out the things that God had done through Christ for them and for us — that Christ ...
In 1 Samuel 16, we see how David was selected to be the next King of Israel after Saul had turned out so disappointing. Samuel ...
In his book “Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving,” Miroslav Volf talks about giving and forgiving. Volf says that God’s essential nature is about giving, ...
In Matthew 16:13-20, when Jesus asks the disciples, “Who do you say I am?” Peter answers, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living ...
Right at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, at the very beginning of his ministry, Jesus does something which is so characteristic of his ...
Are you ready to be tempted? Jesus was. In Luke, Chapter 4, we are told that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert ...
The San Diego State Aztecs (7-0) hope to build on a three-game home winning run when hosting the…
There are several strong matchups on Friday in Big South hoops, including the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs squaring off…
The Richmond Spiders (6-0) hope to extend a six-game winning stretch when visiting the Oakland Golden Grizzlies (2-4)…
The A-10 basketball schedule on Friday should provide some fireworks. The outings include the George Mason Patriots taking…
Big South teams are on Friday’s college basketball schedule in four games, including the West Virginia Mountaineers taking…