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“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34, NIV) As Jesus hung on the cross, he uttered these powerful words, exemplifying the very heart of forgiveness. Despite being subjected to unimaginable pain and injustice, he prayed for his persecutors, showing us the depth of God’s love and mercy. This…
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The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed and all of them from the greatest to the least put on sackcloth – Jonah 3:5 Nineveh’s story begins not with its sin but with God’s mercy already in motion. Jonah confronts a violent city with the word of the Lord. He did not preach comfort or…
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Wisdom is born when we realize that our time is limited and therefore precious.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? – Romans 8:35 The human experience is often marked by trials that shake our very foundation, leading to the crushing question: Has God abandoned me? We face moments of acute distress, whether…
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The lesson here is the realization that our time is short, and we need to stop wasting the precious, limited moments we’ve been given on things that won’t matter five minutes after we leave this earth.
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. – Hebrews 11:1 (ESV) Hebrews 11:1 provides us with the most concise and actionable definition of faith in all of Scripture: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” This verse tells…
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Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. – Hebrews 13-2
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We often try to define where God can and cannot operate, setting borders around His power and presence.
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The cosmopolitanism of Rome at the time meant that the Roman church was filled with people from diverse backgrounds. Jews, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Ethiopians, people from the Middle East and Ephesus. While this was to be embraced, several issues of discrimination and condescension were beginning to creep in, as seen in our verse for today.
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