List of Contents

This is a list of the posts made here. It begins with the most recent post, working backward to the first one.

  • A Child is Born

    And in the same area there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And then an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were very afraid. Luke 2:8–9 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio,…

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  • God’s Bread

    In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the entire inhabited earth should be taxed. This taxation was first made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone went to his own city to be taxed.So Joseph also departed from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to the City of David which…

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  • The Virgin Birth

    And Joseph, when he woke up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and he took his wife and did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus. Matthew 1:24–25 — The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012)…

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  • Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The…

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  • In one of our recent excursions in the text of the Gospel of Matthew, we encountered Jesus preparing His disciples for the near-term future when He would die and rise again. Clearly, in that discussion, the part He spoke of Himself rising again was ignored by His friends, as they were more concerned with ensuring…

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  • Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away on account of Me this night, for it is written:‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’ Matthew 26:31 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014) Jesus told the disciples of many insights from…

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  • A Parable for You Today

    “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be like ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were wise and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps, but took no oil with them. But the wise took jars of oil with their lamps. While the…

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  • Encouragement for Some

    “To the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write:“The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says these things: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,…

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  • He Shall Send Them

    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! And cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king is coming to you; he is righteous and able to deliver, he is humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the offspring of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014)…

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  • But whoever misleads one of these little ones who believe in Me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung about his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of temptations! For it must be that temptations come, but woe to that man…

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