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Read: Matt. 16:21-28 “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me.” (v. 23) Jesus once rebuked Peter for encouraging him to shortcut the road that leads through difficulty (Matt.
Amy Clemens April 24, 2022
Read: Matt. 16:21-28 “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me.” (v. 23) Jesus once rebuked Peter for encouraging him to shortcut the road that leads through difficulty (Matt.
Read: Judges 6:7-24 The LORD said to him, “But I will be with you.” (v. 16) Being the weakest and the least in God’s economy is no invitation to self-contempt. In
Read: Exodus 16 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years . . . till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (v. 35) It seems that when the God
Read: Genesis 2:7-25 Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. (v. 7) Weakness is not a flaw,
Read: Deuteronomy 33:24-29 As your days, so shall your strength be. (v. 25) One of the great differences between living out faith and trying to find life outside of God lies
Read: Isaiah 6:1-13 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, . . . for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD
Read: Isaiah 40:27-31 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength. (vv. 30-31) I’ve been
Read: John 20:1-18 I am the resurrection and the life. (John 11:25) I bought a lily this Easter to remember Art, one of the many people who died from Covid-19
Read: John 15:1-11 I am the true vine. (v. 1) The small planting of vines my parents tended ripened about the same time as the apple trees in our yard, but