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A common life event many of us can share is the losing of a loved one. We miss our loved one when they have died. We long to talk to them and spend time with them. No human can really comfort the pain from losing a loved one in such times of grief. Jesus says:
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34 David answered Saul, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it down, and rescued the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur,[a] strike it down, and kill
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10 “Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name
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Yesterday we learned that Jesus is the bread of life. Bread is important and we learn that sunlight is also just as important. All plants, animals, and humans need sunlight. Sunlight is a needed source to live and thrive. Just as we need physical sunlight, there is another source of Light we need: Jesus Jesus
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Through the a study of the book of James, I learned that 80% of the food consumed during biblical times was bread. It was an essential source to the poor and rich. They both had bread in their homes. They could not survive without it. This is why Jesus declares that He is the bread
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Love: affection for a person or an object. There are many different attributes we could apply to the word love and most be appropriate. However, when we examine the word love from God’s Point of view, we get a very different picture of what love is. Love is the foundation of our faith in Jesus
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Hope: the desire to see something happen or become true. It is hard to survive without hope. Because of this, we tend to put our hope in objects, experiences, and people. This leads us to great disappointments when our expectations are unrealistic and mismanaged. We need to place our hope is something that is realistic
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Yesterday I wrote faith is: simply putting trust or confidence in something or someone and having a belief that is not based on proof. Worldly faith is different from the faith I am addressing here. A great example of the faith we are talking about can be found in 1 Samuel 17. God leads a
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Paul gets right to the heart of the matter in 1 Corinthians 13. CHapter 13 of first Corinthians is commonly called the chapter on love. After describing the word love in detail, he finishes the chapter by saying that these things will last forever: faith, hope, and love. 13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but
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