If you are alive, chances are good that life will throw you a curve ball or sometimes even more than that. And being a child of God does not necessarily mean that you will always catch those curve balls. On the contrary. So the question is not whether life will throw us curve balls, because […]
Read moreWhile Paul was in prison he wrote this letter to the Ephesians. They were actually the reason why he was imprisoned. 1This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called. Nothing could prevent Paul from proclaming the Gospel. Even here in prison he makes a […]
Read moreSometimes honest confrontation needs to happen. But many of us try to avoid it, because we’re afraid of the pain it brings. We’re afraid that we’ll make others angry. We’re afraid of losing them. Paul was afraid that he had lost the congregation in Corinth after writing his first letter. He had to rebuke them. […]
Read more10What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! 11Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. 12While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on the best! […]
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