The Source of Our Hope

The Source of Our Hope Colossians 1:26-28 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Hope is a desire for something, accompanied by the anticipation of receiving it. If our expectation of fulfillment diminishes, …

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Now I Lay Me…..

“You had better be asleep by the time I get there!” She heard herself saying the words as if robotic. Words it seems she had to repeat every night. But that was life with a five year old son, repeating the same words over and over each day. As she reached his room, she could already hear the constant moving. As she peeped around the corner of the door, she found her son still sitting up in the middle of the bed. “I thought I told you to get to sleep!” “Mama, I can’t go to sleep yet, we forgot …

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The Prodigal Son:

by JACK WELLMAN The parable of the Prodigal Son is a story about God’s redemptive grace and mercy. It is a story of His unconditional love and forgiveness. It is about God seeking sinners. In Luke 15, Jesus tells about the youngest son coming to his father to ask for his inheritance ahead of time. The youngest son would only receive one-third of the father’s inheritance in accord to the Old Testament laws in Deuteronomy 21:17. He then took the inheritance and ran away to spend it all on having a good time. He had plenty of “friends” to help …

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Turn Around

by Charles R. Swindoll Scriptures: Job 42:1–6 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said, 2I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained. 3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee: 6Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and …

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Occupy Until Our Lord’s Return

Excerpted from Life on the Highest Plane – Ruth Paxson (1928): Luke 19:12-13, “He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his 10 servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, ‘ till I come.’” “Occupy.” The Christian who looks and longs for the Lord’s return is sometimes accused by those who reject this truth of being a visionary, impracticable stargazer, waiting idly for something to happen to release him from a doomed world. They even claim that such a hope “cuts the …

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