Category: Hope
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Hymn of Heaven

But those of us who live in Christ will not be left alone in the darkness. We live in the hope of heaven. Our death will not be the ending…it will be our new beginning. We will dwell in the light of God for all eternity. Simply knowing this fact should spur our lives to…
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Plan B…

God in His complete knowledge and sovereignty placed the tree in the garden, to glorify the Son, with His sacrifice on the cross.
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Restoration…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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The most extravagant 3 days in history…

Jesus left the beauty, warmth, and peace of heaven—and entered into the dirty, ugly, cold world that we struggle through each day. He cast aside His power and took on the helpless form of a baby. He walked amongst us for 33 years, living in poverty, hunger, fear, pain…why? For you! He did all of…
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Promised Land

Knowing that Jesus is King and that we are His children, knowing that we are now at peace with God, knowing that we have forgiveness that can never be taken away…why else wouldn’t we have hope?
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What is real?

So it is with this world; the evidence that God exists is overwhelming. We just don’t want to be bothered with that truth! We have exchanged the truth in order to support the lies that we have created.
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Overdrawn…
Paul is telling us in no uncertain terms—we cannot balance our accounts with God. We are so far in the negative that nothing we can do will ever square the debt. We can’t work enough, be good enough, be generous enough…nothing WE can do will ever tip the scale and clear the debt we have…
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It’s about relationship…

It’s not about religion—not really. It’s about relationship! As a Christian, I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I know Him and He knows me!
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Percolating my Joy…
Yet, the coffee can’t percolate, unless it is plugged into its power source and the heat has built up enough, for the coffee to be forced up and out of the tube. So is our joy in the Lord!
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Just as I am…

With Him—there is only his love and the sacrifice that he made on our behalf. And that sacrifice wasn’t made because of WHO I am. No! It was made because of WHO He is!
