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Luke 9:51 “As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.” Jesus knew that heading to Jerusalem meant going to the cross. Despite that he was resolute in obeying his Father. Even in the garden at Gethsemane, his anguished praying was not a wavering but an…

Luke 10:1 “The Lord appointed seventy two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place he was about to go.” A team is never less than two, and usually it’s more than that. Whatever the number, we need each other. Your strengths compensate for my weaknesses, and our…

Matthew 11:30 “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.” A man was trudging down a dusty road in rural Kentucky in the heat of the day, loaded up with a cumbersome backpack and a suitcase in either hand. The driver of a pick-up truck took pity and offered him a ride in the…

Romans 6:11,13,14 “Count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus… Offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness… because you are not under law, but under grace.” John Wesley went as a…

Watch the video here! John 2:15,16 “Jesus made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area… ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!’” Sometimes God wants us to get angry. Often the status quo needs challenging. How attractive is Jesus in his violent…

Jeremiah 6:16 “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” A Chinese proverb tells us that ‘the journey is the reward’. The verse above tells us that we will find rest for our souls…

Psalm 23:2 “He leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.” In the business of life, I try to have a weekly day of prayer, skipping food to make time for being in God’s presence. The crazy thing is, because my identity is so tied up in ‘doing’, I often get to the end…

Psalm 23:4 “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” During the Holocaust, prisoners in concentration camps would usually be worked to exhaustion, and eventually executed once they couldn’t contribute to the cause…

Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Robert Burdette wrote this piece called ‘God’s Days’: “There are two days in the week upon which and about which I never worry – two carefree days kept sacredly free from fear and…

1 Samuel 16:7 “The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearances but the Lord looks at the heart.” www.beautifulpeople.com was hacked recently. It’s a website for beautiful people. There is a strict rating process enforced by members to keep ugly people out. The screening process failed…