1. Depth of Mercy

    book
    05/07/24
    19 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The lack of history surrounding Psalm 130 allows it to endure as universally appealing even for our seasons of hopelessness and despair when we’re in “the depths.”
    Depth of Mercy

  2. A Good Shepherd

    book
    04/29/24
    8 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
    A Good Shepherd

  3. Sheep and Shepherds

    book
    04/23/24
    9 mins
    read
    By Pete Lange
    In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
    Sheep and Shepherds

  4. The Resurrection Message of Forgiveness

    book
    04/19/24
    8 mins
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    By Jason Oakland
    The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
    The Resurrection Message of Forgiveness

  5. The Hands of the King

    book
    04/17/24
    12 mins
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    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    When Jesus appeared again to his disciples on that first Easter evening and again a week later with Thomas and the Emmaus disciples, what did Jesus show them? His hands.
    The Hands of the King

  6. Unforeseen Sympathy

    book
    04/10/24
    22 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Jonah’s biggest blunder was a failure to understand that God’s grace is always undeserved and always falls on those who are unworthy of it.
    Unforeseen Sympathy

  7. You Won't Have to Try to Love

    book
    04/01/24
    11 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    Heaven is yours now.
    You Won't Have to Try to Love

  8. Judas' Betrayal, Middle English, and the Last Supper

    book
    03/27/24
    10 mins
    read
    By Donavon Riley
    This day and its meaning provided the opportunity for an anonymous author to write a poem for Sheer Thursday about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
    Judas' Betrayal, Middle English, and the Last Supper

  9. See God on Passion Sunday

    book
    03/25/24
    19 mins
    read
    By John Bombaro
    He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
    See God on Passion Sunday

  10. The Sound of Freedom

    book
    02/28/24
    22 mins
    read
    By Bradley Gray
    This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
    The Sound of Freedom

  11. Entirely Outside of You, For You

    book
    02/26/24
    6 mins
    read
    By Wade Johnston
    He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
    Entirely Outside of You, For You

  12. Lent's Forty Days

    book
    02/20/24
    10 mins
    read
    By John Bombaro
    The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
    Lent's Forty Days
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