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All Roads Lead to Love

December leads us to Christmas.  Christmas leads us to Christ Jesus.  Christ Jesus leads us to love.  It is that simple.  In the end, all roads lead to love. Recent events have underscored this in new ways. What we celebrate this month is the life of Jesus of Nazareth that ministered, blessed, healed, taught, and […]

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Who knew?! A Link between Grace and Thanksgiving

Who knew that the word ‘grace’ is inextricably tied to Thanksgiving? But doesn’t it make complete sense that a psalm of Thanksgiving is the testimony to answered prayer?   Your Thanksgiving gathering will no doubt be so much more than the meal, but the specific giving of thanks for all the many blessings, the divine responses […]

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Why Jesus’ baptism is told differently

The fact that our New Testament contains four Gospels by four writers with four viewpoints can sometimes be tricky to navigate when some events of Jesus’ life are told differently.  Yet there are substantial blessings in having these four accounts for Bible students twenty centuries later:  we gain a fuller picture and understanding of Christ […]

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Lazarus’ resurrection: Vital to early Christians

You start to notice it from the art of the early centuries of Christianity: in the Roman catacombs alone there are over 55 paintings of Lazarus’s resurrection. Roughly an equal number depict this ministry-changing event (told only in John’s Gospel), on Roman sarcophagi, the marble caskets where nobility were buried. Dozens more depictions of Jesus’ […]

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