FORGIVENESS
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Luke 22:1-6 Lord Jesus,Glorious Lord and Saviour of all,You have redeemed me from deathand led me in the Way of Eternal Life. And yet,to my shame:Time and again I have fallen into the trapof believing that there is a better way than Yours;I have looked for the easier way,the way that is moreprofitable,comfortable,pleasurable,acceptable,expedient.Please forgive mefor
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Daily Readings: Revelation 21-22 and Psalm 63 The final chapters of the Revelation are filled with the promise of the new creation. When Jesus returns as King and Lord of all, the entire universe is re-created, never to be corrupted by sin again. In this glorious new creation, God dwells with His people in a
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Daily Readings: Luke 23 and Psalm 39 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals – one on his right, the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ I imagine being arrested in the dead of night, abandoned
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Daily Readings: Luke 17 and Psalm 33 3 So watch yourselves. If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. 4 Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying “I repent,” you must forgive them.’ “You must forgive them.” When
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Daily Readings: Luke 6 and Psalm 22 Jesus’ ministry had really just begun, but already He was drawing massive crowds as word of His miracles spread. Luke reports that “the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all” (v.19). I’m sure there were those who eagerly expected
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Daily Readings: Hebrews 8-9 and Psalm 14 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.I will be their God, and they will be my people. With these words, quoted from Jeremiah 31:33, the author of
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Today we shift to the apostle Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, written to the fledgling Church in Ephesus while he was a prisoner in Rome around AD 60-62. It is a glorious presentation of God’s beautiful plan for His people. Daily Readings: Ephesians 1 and Psalm 138 Starting at the very beginning, Ephesians 1 reminds
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 2 and Psalm 120 In 1 Corinthians 5:1 Paul described the disgusting, sexually immoral behaviour of an unnamed man in the Church in Corinth, who was sleeping with his father’s wife (presumably his ‘step-mother’). He called on the Church to discipline him by excluding him from their fellowship and their celebration
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 6 and Psalm 118 1 Corinthians 6 is filled with Holy Spirit-inspired instruction and correction from Paul. Although he addressed a range of areas where the Corinthian Christians were falling into sinful tendencies, the heart of his instruction was to remind them that their salvation had begun with repentance from sin.
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 2 and Psalm 114 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that
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