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Recognizing that God’s love prompted him to send Jesus to the world to save us from our sins, how does God’s love and mercy work alongside his justice and wrath?
Jan. 2 | Discovery
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Our Hope
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al, but they did not. However, it wasn’t just the days of Christ’s ministry for which they longed. Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses saw a better day in the distance when God’s rule will be restored. Their hope has now become our hope.
Jan. 2 | Application
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If God had no capacity for righteous anger, it would create some difficult dilemmas.
Jan. 2 | Righteous Wrath
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Romans has been responsible for more church revivals than any other New Testament book. This month, students will learn that God is righteous, and therefore judgment should be left in his hands.
An Old-Fashioned Christmas . . . at Any Cost
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In this, the sixth of seven Christmas memories leaders are sharing leading up to Christmas Day, retired Christian church minister Tom Ellsworth remembers a snowy journey he and his young family embarked on during his first year as a father.
This Wasn’t in the Script
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“It’s the late 1990s, and I’m sitting in the audience of the annual Christmas production at my suburban megachurch when something happens that’s obviously not in the script (or the Scriptures, for that matter),” writes Austin Gohn, lead pastor with Bellevue Christian Church in Pittsburgh.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘One Little Bell’ (1972)
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Blanche Claycomb wrote in 1972, “A memory I shall always treasure is a mental picture of our eldest son. Jim was about fifteen months old, and the sights and sounds of Christmas filled his little eyes and heart with joy.” . . .
COVID Christmas
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“On Dec. 16, 2020—my brother-in-law and husband, both pastors in our church, tested positive for COVID-19,” Tina Wilson writes. Many other leaders needed to be quarantined, as well. At Ekklesia Christian Church, this all came at the start of 13 worship services over the next 14 days, closing on property, and launching a generosity initiative . . .
Northview Christian Church Ships Thousands of Bibles to South Africa
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On a recent Friday, members of Northview Christian Church, Coldwater, Mich., loaded about 27,000 Bibles into a shipping container headed to South Africa Christian Mission.