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Your Shepherd

Your shepherd Read Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, and John 10:22-30. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1) If the Lord is to be your shepherd, you must be his sheep. If the Lord is your shepherd, Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-05-07 ago
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Peace be with you

Peace be with you (John 20:19) Christ promises a peace that passes understanding. He gave it to his disciples in a word. Do you experience that peace? Is your house at rest? People naturally desire and seek peace in all Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-04-29 ago
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Eternal consequences

Read John 20:19-31. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained. (John 20:23) After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples singly and in groups. He had Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-04-22 ago
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Why are you weeping?

Read John 20:11-18. Why are you weeping? (John 20:13) Angels seem usually to appear to announce big news. You are going to have more descendants than there are stars in the sky. You are going to have a baby. To Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-04-15 ago
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Two causes of humility

Read Philippians 2:5-11. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-04-09 ago
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Rubbish

Read Philippians 3:4b-14. Rubbish. (Philippians 3:8) May I drive 30 mph in a 25 zone? I have spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about this question. For a time I religiously paid attention to speed limits and to my Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-04-01 ago
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Be reconciled to God

Read 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. We entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20b) Our Lord said “I am the light of the world.” This light travels the land with the speed of, well, light, and Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-03-24 ago
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A dry and weary land

Psalm 63:1-8. My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1b). Where is that dry and weary land where there is no water? Where is that land of emptiness and Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-03-19 ago
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Enemies of the cross of Christ

Read Philippians 3:17-4:1. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ (Philippians 3:18a) Enemies in the church! Idolators! Many of them! They worship their bellies or their treasures or their pleasures or their honor. Their mind is on Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-03-12 ago
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Tauler — Sermon for Ash Wednesday

I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. (Galatians 2:20) This searching and compelling sermon is a meditation on the three crosses of Golgatha, taken as a figure of three types of Read more…

By Harry Plantinga, 6 years2019-03-06 ago

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