daily devotion
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a study on faith
Key Text: Ephesians 2:8 Goals: 1. Know: That faith is more than just belief, but an experience of trust and certainty. 2. Feel: Your faith grow stronger through the study of the Bible and a relationship with Jesus. 3. Do: Let faith be the guiding principle in your life. Lesson Outline: I. Finding Faith (Habbakuk Read more
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a study on love
Key Text: 1 Corinthians 13:13 Goals: 1. Know: That God is love and that Jesus is the greatest expression of that love 2. Feel: The difference between human love and God’s all-encompassing love. 3. Do: Allow God’s love to manifest itself in our lives through Christ. Lesson Outline: I. Needing Love (Genesis 1:26) A. The Read more
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power misguided
A Bible Study on Ahab and Jezebel Introduction: The book, Shantung Compound, describes the lives of the people detained in a camp in China by the Japanese during World War II. One particular chapter talks about the development of a black market within the camp. Because of the black market precious commodities like eggs, sugar, and Read more
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family chronicles
Who am I, LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? 1 Chronicles 17:16 Suppose you were to lose everything you held dear, how would you feel? What would you cling to if all that had once been tangible in your life was no more? The Israelites often found Read more
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just a little is sometimes all it takes
Question: Suppose Americans cut down the amount of meat they eat by 10% and replace the 10% with grains and soybeans, how many starving people do you think the money saved would feed? Answer: 60 million people. (Americans eat a lot! The per capita consumption of peanut butter alone in the US and Canada is Read more
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measuring life with potato chips and cheesecake
My first few months of missionary life in Nepal were awful. I felt trapped, imprisoned and deprived of necessities like heat in my home, television sitcoms, hot showers, high speed interne, and people who used deodorant. But most of all I was outraged that there was no potato chips or cheesecake. Unable to imagine six Read more
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jenny and the judges
What happened, when I was 14, to the family that lived behind our home and how my mother reacted to the whole drama taught me a lesson in Christian living. The family consisted of a single mother and her two daughters, Mary and Jenny. Mary was quiet, complacent and obedient. Jenny was head-strong, opinionated, and Read more
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the pharisee and the penny
The secret of perfect pizza and Cinnabons is in the dough. And I’ve never been able to get the dough right from scratch. Far away from modern grocers and frozen bread dough, it took 12-year-old Jenny to find a solution to my predicament: Buy dough instead of doughnuts. After healing from the slap to my Read more
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for loot or love?
Amen! Come, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22: 20, NIV) Sky’s favorite thing to do as a toddler was to look through Grandma’s silk sarees. The brilliance of the bright colors and gold embroidery would keep her enthralled for hours. And she was ecstatic when she learned that all of them would be hers one day. However, Read more
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our lineage and what it means
(published 2006 in the Adventist Review) When Tom Robinson, an amateur yet avid genealogist, sent a sample of his DNA to a bioarchaeology firm, the resulting discovery required more than a letter in the mail. Robinson received a personal phone call that informed him that he was a direct descendant of Ghengis Khan. For some, Read more
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