Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. —Luke 6:36 The difference between mercy and grace is that God’s mercy refrains from giving us the condemnation that we deserve, while his grace gives us the salvation that we don’t deserve. Two […]
On April 14, 2004, Marine Corporal Jason Dunham’s squadron was manning a checkpoint near the Syrian border in western Iraq when an Iraqi soldier lobbed a grenade into the unit. Dunham dived on the missile and died shielding his comrades from the explosion with his own body. Battalion commander Lt. Col. Matthew Lopez said, “Cpl.
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My eyes have seen your salvation. —Luke 2:30 Simeon was an old man. He had lived through painful shifts, seeing his world fall apart. His beloved homeland fell to foreign rule. Political corruption, brazen immorality, and distressing religious decay crushed everything decent. But Simeon
A Savior has been born … he is Christ the Lord. —Luke 2:11 Jesus did not come because of your strength, but because of your sin; not because of your goodness, but because of your guilt;
Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. —Mark 13:33 There have been self-declared prophets in every generation who have clucked that they have nailed down the exact date of the world’s end. They have all been wrong. No surprise there, for
I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief! —Mark 9:24 There was mixture in this dad’s heavy heart—a hybrid of belief and unbelief. It wasn’t one person saying, “I believe” and a different person saying, “help
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All these evils come from inside and make a man “unclean.” —Mark 7:21 Jesus rattled the Jewish dietary cage when he told them to forget this “kosher” nonsense; it’s what goes into your heart, not your stomach that corrupts. It is the thought-life that defiles you. For from within,
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Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. —Mark 6:51 He had agreed to join them, but evening came and “Jesus had not yet come to them” (Jno. 6:17). Their boat was being tossed like a toy by vicious wind
Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place. —Mark 6:31 “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where
Isn’t this the carpenter? —Mark 6:3 Carpenters do two things: they make things and fix things. Jesus was a carpenter. He made us: “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” But we stumbled, fell, got broken. We need to be fixed. He can
