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1 Corinthians 2:2 “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Happy New Year! I wonder how the year ahead is looking for you? Maybe you’ve made a few New Year’s resolutions, maybe not. I remember one year breaking my major resolution within minutes of the…

2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have run the race, I have kept the faith.” So it’s New Year’s Eve and the end of another calendar year. How would you evaluate the last 365 days? In verse 7 above, Paul was looking backwards on his whole life and doing a positive…

Philippians 3:12-14 “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind…

James 1:2-4 “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” Has it been a tough year? It has for me. When going through…

John 19:30 Jesus said: “It is finished!” Tullian Tchividjian tells the story of his friend’s daughter, Robin, who desperately wanted to avoid an English literature class for fear of failure. She cried before her seasoned teacher, who looked at her and said: “Robin, I know how you feel. What if I promised you an ‘A’…

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Ephesians 5:15,16 “Be very careful, then, how you live… making the most of every opportunity.” I always remember a friend who died over Christmas time. Two days before that he was fine, then he slipped into a coma and then he was gone. Another friend is right on the edge after…

Ecclesiastes 3:13 “That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil – this is the gift of God.” A boat docked in a tiny Thai village. An American tourist complimented the Thai fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. “Not very…

Luke 1:47 “My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour.” MERRY CHRISTMAS! May you have a precious time today with loved ones. Be grateful for all God’s richest blessings in your life. Rejoice and be glad in Him. Not everybody enjoys this time of year. “What has the world come to?” and “What has Christmas come…

Isaiah 53:2 “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” An old shoe cobbler once dreamed on Christmas Eve that Jesus would come to visit him the next day. The dream was so real that he was convinced it would come true. So…

John 8:12 “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” When Pope Julius I authorized December 25th to be celebrated as the birthday of Jesus in A.D. 353, nobody could have foreseen what it would become in our day. And then…