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The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. John 1:9
From the top of a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, shines one of the brightest, most visible beams of light on earth. It’s so bright that a book could be read from its light miles away in space. At night, it also…
I have come as a light to shine in this dark world. John 12:46
During our church’s Christmas Eve service, one lit candle burned brightly on the platform. After singing carols together and hearing the nativity story, the lights were turned off and a darkness settled on the room. As the acapella sounds of “Silent Night” filled the sanctuary, candles throughout…
Peace to you
His Peace, Our Peace
I now send you, to open their eyes…that they may receive forgiveness of sins… —Acts 26:17-18 (NKJV)
This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament.
God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words, “…that they may receive…
IN-Compassion
If we had the compassion of Jesus, it would change our families, churches, and neighborhoods for the better. It would allow us to give to others what all of us want for ourselves. It would enable us to fulfill the purpose for which we leave our footprints on this planet.
This article by Vernon Grounds helps you discover how you can…
In some ways, the king's story ends where it began. What started with a paradise lost ends with a paradise found. According to the king’s own predictions, the rebel and all of his followers will be defeated and removed from the earth. Through a series of catastrophic endtime events, the king will break the will of his enemies in…
The teacher’s followers couldn’t make sense of what happened. One minute they were listening to the wisest, most loving man they had ever seen. The next minute he was subjected to an unfair trial, declared unfit to live, and sentenced to die. Now he was gone. The teacher’s life and vision for the future seemed to end as quickly as…
The king didn’t force the family to do what they weren’t ready to do. Instead of pushing his chosen people across the river and through the deep valley that lay between them and their promised land, he put them into a holding pattern. For 40 years he provided for them in a barren, hot, and windswept land. In his shadow,…
In their loss of innocence, the caretakers changed in ways they could not have anticipated. For the first time they didn’t want to see the king. Suddenly they felt a need to cover themselves and hide. Never before had they blamed each other for anything. In the hours that followed, they learned the meaning of fear. When the king found…
Long ago, before dinosaurs roamed the earth, and before lakes of oil pooled below the ocean floor, there was a great king. No one knows where this king came from, or what he did before giving us the greatest story ever told. All we know about him began when he appeared with a vision for a free world that would…
The greatest story ever told
The world is full of stories. But there is one that deserves to be told more than the rest. It’s a timeless story of love and intrigue found in a collection of 66 writings known around the world as the Old and New Testaments.
Yet, because the sections of this book do not always read like a continuing story, its unfolding…
Celebrating Jesus
I n the summer of 2010, I was reminded anew of the healing and reconciliation that Jesus brought to earth by His birth, death, and resurrection. Our church family studied the Old Testament book of Malachi. The series was titled Reset and focused on resetting worship, marriage, and justice. The last message addressed resetting injustice in the world beginning with addressing…
KIDLET
NEW BEGINNINGS
Who is your favourite celebrity? What would you do if you got to meet them in reality? Maybe you would get their autograph, or maybe you would click a quick ‘selfie’ with them. Whatever you end up doing we are sure that this will be a very precious memory for you.
I wonder how the wise men and the shepherds…
What is Worship
What's the big deal about worship?
Do you view worship as a boring or simply required activity? If so, your worship may have the wrong focus. Perhaps you have yet to grasp what it is to appreciate the most creative, imaginative, awe-inspiring Being in the Universe.
Author James Pittman says that the human instinct to worship is inevitable, but much of what…
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ইংরেজি মুভি হাশি-তে একটি কুকুরের কাহিনী বলা হয়েছে। কলেজের একজন অধ্যাপক একটি রাস্তার কুকুর হাশির সঙ্গে তাঁর সম্পর্ক ছিন্ন করেছিলেন। সেই অধ্যাপক যখন তাঁর কাজ থেকে ফিরতেন, সেই কুকুরটি রোজ রেলস্টেশনে তাঁর অপেক্ষায় থেকে নিজের আনুগত্য প্রকাশ করত। একদিন, সেই অধ্যাপক এক মারাত্মক হৃদ্রোগে আক্রান্ত হলেন। ঘণ্টার পর ঘণ্টা ধরে কুকুরটি তাঁর অপেক্ষায় ছিল। দশ বছর…
