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Whole-Hearted, Sold-Out Worship

September 29, 2012

Dear Saints, In this Wednesday Night’s study on Revelation 2:1-7, in which we saw that Jesus condemns the Church of Ephesus for losing its first love for Him (which ultimately killed their local church), we were challenged to love God more, especially in how we approach Him in worship together to hear Him speak through […]

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Turning the World Upside Down by Turning Ourselves Right-side Up

September 24, 2012

For Lord’s Day, August 19, 2012 Dearly Beloved, Are you upside down or right side up?  I was thinking about this question today with the world and myself and the Church related to the following verse: And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, […]

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You Serve Whom or What You Fear

September 24, 2012

(For Lord’s Day, August 26, 2012, weekly church email devotion) Dear Saints, I was listening to some sermons through the Gospel of Mark by Pastor Jeff Stivason this week, and one point particularly impressed me.  He said something to the effect of not fearing man, but God, for we serve whom we fear.  This is a paraphrase of […]

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The Corporate, Horizontal Nature of the Lord’s Supper

September 24, 2012

(For September 2, 2012 weekly email church devotion) Dear Saints, This Lord’s Day, we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper after the evening service. In preparation for the Supper, I’d like to encourage us all to reflect on the “horizontal” aspect of this heavenly meal; that is, fellowship between each of us in the presence of […]

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Totally Absorbed in the Son

September 24, 2012

(For September 9, 2012 midweek church email devotion) Dear Saints, I’d like to share a quote with you by R. Kent Hughes in his book, Disciplines of a Godly Man:  “We are to be totally absorbed with Jesus.  He is to fill our skies like the morning sunrise.  He is to be our high noon and […]

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Be Butterflies

September 24, 2012

(For September 16, 2012 midweek church email devotion) Dear Saints, Last Lord’s Day morning we were told to remember and be who we are in Christ as new creatures possessing all new things.  The closing illustration said we need to see that we are butterflies so that we act like who we are in Christ. […]

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Love – The Greatest Thing in the World

September 24, 2012

(For September 23, 2012 midweek church email devotion) Dear Saints, We saw last Lord’s Day evening that Jesus teaches us God’s greatest command is to love. You could sum up even His two pivotal means of the Moral Law (Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18) in one word, which must be behind it all: LOVE.  The […]

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