The author of The 5 Love Languages wrote, “One way to express love emotionally is to use words that build others up.” The first reading today is an exchange of affirming terms between lovers, followed by New Testament passages describing how loving speech is a result of God’s goodness and forgiveness. Song of Read more
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In April 2023 a news story reported, “An unprecedented storm system dumped more than 2 feet of rain on Broward County, Florida on Wednesday.” Although floods can kill and destroy, the following scripture readings tell us how God works through water to save us. Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heavens Read more
- 23 April, 2023
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We read the full account of Deborah and Jael in Judges chapter 4. “Give him into your hands” is an idiom frequently used in the Old Testament that is found in today’s reading to describe Israel’s God-given victory over their enemy. This is a foreshadowing of the outcome in the spiritual warfare that Christ’s Read more
- 16 April, 2023
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1 Corinthians 15:50-54 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, […]Read more
- 09 April, 2023
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