While celebrating the New Year we hear a lot about making resolutions that may or may not become reality for us. The clock turning to 12:01 on New Year’s Day is different from any other night of the year. We are more likely to reflect on the past and we hope to not make the same mistakes over again.

Reflection is often a good thing, but what about those memories that cause you shame and deep regret. Many Christians struggle…..

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Tomorrow we will celebrate Christmas to remember the birth of Jesus Christ as a human child:  “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: when as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost” (Matt. 1:18). But the message of Christmas is incomplete without the message of Easter.

Jesus Christ grew up as any other child does. As was typical in Jewish families, He was taught…..

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When our children were little, a large part of our Advent activities involved Old Testament prophecy concerning the coming of Jesus. Of those passages, Micah 5:2 sums up the big picture of the coming of Messiah:

“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”

The passage makes clear…..

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Before we even said yes to Jesus, He knew us and chose us to be the recipients of His love.

Our positions as Christians began with God’s eternal plan for each of us. We were foreknown, elect, predestined, chosen, and called. The Apostle Peter begins his first epistle with this reminder to his readers: “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto…..

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2 Corinthians 2:14-16a says, “Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the [distinctive quality] of His knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved and in them that perish; to the one we are the savor of death unto death and to the other the savor of life unto life.”

As we learn and grow in faith and holiness…..

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