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The Final Trip Around the Sun
Well, it’s the new year. We made it around the sun again. The inhabitants of Earth make the full circuit once every year—365.25 days, or 365 days and 6 hours (which explains why we observe Leap Year and add a day every four years). If you...
“You Don’t Have to Say Something Biblical Right Away,” and Other Better Ways to Encourage Newly Suffering Believers
Believers suffer for the benefit of other suffering believers. Paul told the Corinthians that the affliction he and his team experienced in Asia was so difficult that “we despaired of life itself. Indeed we felt that we had received the sentence of death” (2 Cor 1:8b-9a)....
Come to Jesus…Right Now!
Perhaps you have heard the gospel before. But you have not yet come to Jesus or believed in him to save you. What can you do? First, hear the gospel again and be sure you understand who Jesus is, what he has done to deliver sinners,...
Stay Awake
Ishmael must stay awake. He sits at the gate to the entrance of the Bushbaby Lodge in Uganda. Whenever anyone departs or arrives, he opens the gate. He must stay awake because he never knows when anyone will arrive. They could come in the evening, or...
Christ’s Resurrection: The Dawning of the New Creation
Two ladies named Mary went to Jesus’ tomb early Sunday morning (Matthew 28:1). They weren’t expecting to see a risen Jesus, but to anoint his dead body with spices. First, they would have to figure out how to get that giant stone rolled away from the...
