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Good Works: Prepared and Waiting

Good Works: Prepared and Waiting
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 When I read this passage, and once I get beyond the wonder that we are His handiwork, it is easy for me to get hung up on the works that He’s…
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Other Side

Other Side
Rabbinic teaching styles create visual images for abstract ideas to better communicate their thoughts. Think of the Biblical descriptions of people (sheep, goats, white washed walls), God (Father, Rock, Shepherd) and even places (far country, abyss, land of the twelve). Across the Sea of Galilee from Capernaum, where religious Jews were plentiful, was a Greek/Roman…
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When I am afraid

When I am afraid
When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. In God, Whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?  Psalm 56:3-4 What makes you afraid? Sickness? Being alone? Financial troubles? When you feel that fear, what do you do? I am apprehensive of change. My tendency is…
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Life in Babylon

Life in Babylon
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and…
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