vision (69)

Ian

Wednesday after Easter

Genesis 1:24–2:1, Genesis 3:6–13, Psalm 11, Matthew 6:22–23 Up through verse 25, God’s creative acts end with the epithet, “…God saw that it was good.” Then God made mankind. With the completion of that act, “…God saw that it was very good.” The word very…

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Ian

Fifth Monday of Lent

Proverbs 19:16-25, Jeremiah 24:1-10 Wisdom is all around us. It’s on our phones. Just ask Google. True wisdom starts with God. That is the premise of Proverbs. How is such wisdom gained? There are a number of ways. The best (and easiest) is to learn…

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Ian

Fifth Sunday during Lent

Isaiah 30:18–26, Isaiah 61:10–11, 1 Corinthians 3:5–11, 1 Corinthians 11:23–26 We are the bridge between the past and the future, with one foot in the past and one foot in the future. The past of glory was gone, a faded memory. Perhaps to some it…

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Ian

Third Friday of Lent

Psalm 63:1-8, Daniel 12:1-4, Revelation 2:1-7 Often when we first come to know Jesus, our hearts are on fire. A colorful way of saying it is a “fire in the bones” or “fire in the belly”. In other words, we experience a change. For others,…

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Ian

Third Thursday of Lent

Psalm 22, Genesis 28:10–22, Luke 20:27-39 Jacob’s vision encouraged and assured him that God was real, and God had something planned for him. What the vision didn’t do was say everything was going to be easy, and that he (and his family) would always be…

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