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Replacing Judas as a Model for Ministry: Three Things You Can Do

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Right about now I tend to run a parallel calendar in my mind with the events of Easter. It usually starts during the Passion Week with its daily, play-by-play account of events. It’s then easy to keep that calendar momentum rolling through, and even beyond, the Easter season since events are so well keyed into timeframes in the … [Read more...]

A Heartburn Moment with Jesus

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An event happened shortly after Jesus’ resurrection that has profound implications on how we are to personally engage Scripture and on the type of atmosphere we are to create around our teaching and discipleship efforts.   It is a lesser known Resurrection Sunday event, but you may be familiar with a famous painting … [Read more...]

TEEN DEVO: A Heartburn Moment with Jesus

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You’ve undoubtedly heard the story. Maybe you’ve even seen the famous painting. Two disciples were walking to Emmaus on the third day after Jesus was crucified—talking a mile a minute about the strange events of recent days. Jesus, unrecognizable to them, sidled up and inquired about their conversation, at which point they … [Read more...]

Experience the Peace of Easter

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It’s striking that the first word out of Jesus’ resurrected mouth to His disciples was simply “Peace.” It could have been a lot of things. It could have been admonishment. It certainly could have been “I told you so!” But…it was “Peace.”   Yes, “Peace be with you” was a standard greeting in Jesus’ day. But we have no … [Read more...]