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Learn with your Feet

Books and photography have made our world much smaller. And through movies and IMAX we can be virtually transported to distant lands, feeling as if we’ve actually been there. I remember seeing pictures of the Grand Canyon as a child with only fleeting interest before visiting and realizing it was more than just a big…
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Nothing Left

And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. Mark 15:24 In recent studies, this verse was given as a memory assignment. As I’ve pored over it in my mind, etching it on my heart, one thing I noticed was that He was left utterly…
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Kingdom of Heaven: Infiltrate

He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” Matthew 13:33 Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to the effect of a small amount of leaven. For all the non-bakers out there, once mixed in and allowed to sit…
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The Kingdom of Heaven

He told them another parable. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like … Matthew 13:33 Jesus repeatedly points to the Kingdom of Heaven but there is some debate about what exactly it is. The term doesn’t appear in the Hebrew Bible yet the Jewish sages refer to it in their writings. Jesus spoke of it as something…
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