Category: Reflections of Jesus

(43) Abiding in the Love of God

(43) Abiding in the Love of God

The Preface: How much does the love of God impact you on a daily basis? It’s easy to say, “Yeah, I know God loves me. He sent Jesus to die for my sins.” But, how often do you think about all that His love means, and all that His love did and does for you? […]
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(41) God’s Value on Unity

(41) God’s Value on Unity

The Preface: How important is unity to you? Does ministry just continue as if nothing is wrong, even when not everyone is in unity? How about in your family? The Passage: Matt 5:21-26 Commentary: The religious leaders have becoming more and more agitated with what they are seeing in Jesus’ life. He claimed to be […]
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(35) The New Wine

(35) The New Wine

The Preface: How much do you like change? Even if you know the change is for the better? In our life as missionaries, we have had to learn to be OK with change. Someone said once that as missionaries we live in the perpetual state of change. We are either in the midst of transition, […]
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14 How is your scent?

14 How is your scent?

Our Situation: This week I took a trip to our local market. The veggie market is right across the street from the fish market. As I walked around the market, the stench from the fish market across the street was quite overwhelming. I am sure there was some pleasant smelling things in the veggie market. […]
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13 Speaking with Authority

13 Speaking with Authority

Our Situation:Have you ever sent an older child to give instruction to a younger child, only to have the child come back and tell you, “Johnnie wouldn’t listen to me.” Why? The younger child doesn’t want to be bossed by his older sibling is one reason, usually. But, the bigger reason is that they don’t […]
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12-Eyes that SEE, by faith

12-Eyes that SEE, by faith

Our Situation: What does it mean to SEE through eyes of faith? In CS Lewis’ final book in his Narnia series, he describes a scene that illustrates this point well I think. The children are all in a barn, and some of them can see Narnia, but all the dwarf can see is the walls […]
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11-From Seeing to Believing Faith

11-From Seeing to Believing Faith

Our Situation: God loves to help us to grow in our faith. Often God will use hardship and difficulty to help us to trust Him. (Rom 5:3-5) But, sometimes He uses “No” in answer to a prayer, because He wants to teach us just to trust him and learn to live by faith rather than […]
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09-Born Again

09-Born Again

Our Situation:Have you ever heard someone describe something, that brought a picture to your mind, but then when you actually saw it, it didn’t look anything like you had pictured? This can happen often with Biblical truth. We can hear something, then we interpret what we think that means through the grid of our understanding, […]
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07-God’s Glory Revealed Silently

07-God’s Glory Revealed Silently

The Passage: John 2:1-11  What does it seem like Jesus’s mother is asking of him? How does Jesus respond? What “hour” is Jesus referring to? Knowing that everything Jesus did was on purpose, at the direction of God the Father, what conclusion can we draw regarding Jesus being at the wedding? What impact did His actions […]
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06-God wants to be accepted by me.

06-God wants to be accepted by me.

Our Situation:When I was in elementary school, I was not one of the most popular kids, but I really wanted to be. In fact, I remember being willing to do almost anything to impress the popular kids so they would accept me. On one particular Friday in 5th grade, we had a field trip to […]
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