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Feb 2018

Today, Oct 31st 2017 marks the 500 yr anniversary of the Reformation when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the Wittenberg door and courageously took his stand for the unchanging gospel! A reformation is the action or process of reforming an institution or practice. A focal point of the Protestant Reformation was the Bible being translated and made available in the common language of the people. We are grateful to God for Luther and his fellow reformers, who courageously clarified the gospel and catalyzed its spread throughout the world. These Reformers labored together in the power of God’s Spirit for the......
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Learn to Love
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you...
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The Glory of the Lamb
Jesus still bears the scars and marks from the cross on his glorified body in heaven! He stands as a Lamb as though it had been slain. Charles Spurgeon said that these wounds are...
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The Lamb’s Blood
The death of Jesus is the epicenter of God’s glorious revelation of triumph over the march of death in the course of human history. In one movement in His own body, Jesus halted the...
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The Blind-folded Lamb…
Luke 22:64 (NIV), “They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who hit you?” I have always wondered why you never see this seen in the paintings of Jesus? This scene seems noticeably absent, yet it...
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The Lamb’s Cross
After the arrest in the middle of the night, Jesus exhausted from Gethsemane, was brought before the Sanhedrin and Caiaphas, the high priest. A soldier struck Jesus across the face for remaining silent when...
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The Lamb’s Surrender
Ken Sande writes, Idolatry is the most discussed problem in the Bible of the human condition. It is anything that we love and pursue in place of God. In biblical terms, an idol is...
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Fire of God’s Glory
One of the primary metaphors for the glory of God in Scripture is fire. God is an all-consuming fire, a jealous God. His jealousy removes everything that hinders his love from increasing in our...
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The Lamb’s Fire
The night before the cross, Jesus led the disciples from the upper room out of the city and across the Brook Kidron, which at this point was blood red from the thousands of lambs...
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The Lamb’s Selection Day
Palm Sunday was called Lamb selection day. Jewish families would choose a 1 year old male lamb on Palm Sunday, bring it home and examine it. Exodus 12:2-6 “Tell all the congregation of Israel that...
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