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Shed Any Tears Lately?

LUKE 19:41-44: And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem…

Truths Learned from the Apostle Paul’s Prayer for the Thessalonians – Part 2

In this most personal of letters from the Apostle Paul, he bears his heart of love to these Thessalonians. In doing so, he shows one of the highest displays of love for believers – praying. Lord willing, we will look at this prayer of the Apostle Paul for the Thessalonian believers and learn lessons about our God’s Person, His workings in the lives of His children, and the example of the Apostle Paul.

Motivated By Love

1 CORINTHIANS 16:14:  Let all that you do be done in love.” It is less than ten words, yet, like a small stick of dynamite, it contains enormous power. In fact, it is the greatest power in the earth. It heals hurts. It carries burdens. It lifts the downcast. It removes the dark clouds of depression. And in God’s work of the…

The Two Workings of God’s Grace

1 CORINTHIANS 15:10: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.” Today’s scripture might be considered one of those humanly irreconcilable dilemmas in our Bibles, not…