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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: cross
IN TOUCH DAILY: MARCH 21
Will There Be Eternal Punishment? Revelation 20:11-15 Many people don’t like the idea of eternal punishment for the ungodly. Some people think God shouldn’t have created the world at all if He knew we were going to sin. But can … Continue reading
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Tagged character, charles stanley, choice, choices, conformed, created beings, creator, cross, decide, disobedience, eternal punishment, evil, free will, glorify God, God, God's love, grow in love, hate, heavenly father, human beings, in touch, Jesus, love, obedience, pray, robot, sacrifice, sin, submit, suffer, ungodly
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IN TOUCH DAILY: MARCH 16
Righteous Redemption Romans 3:21-31 Ever since the Garden of Eden, mankind has been tainted by sin. The bad choices we make each day are merely symptoms of the bigger problem—our fleshly nature. But sin has no place in the pure … Continue reading
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Tagged amazing love, bad choices, charles stanley, Christ, Christ is Lord, cross, crucifixion, death, doomed, dreadful fate, eternal life, eternal separation, fleshly nature, fully God, fully man, garden of eden, grave, heavenly father, holy, in touch, Jesus, love, mankind, overcome, perfect life, presence of God, problems, punishment, pure, redemption, resurrection, righteous, righteous redemption, salvation, Savior, separation, sin, solution, suffering, trust in Jesus, wages of sin
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IN TOUCH DAILY: MARCH 8
Sunday Reflection: The Blessing of Salvation The world tells us that it’s not worthwhile to grieve our sin—that we should forget about past mistakes and seize the day, lest we miss out on something exciting. But grief is a useful … Continue reading
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IN TOUCH DAILY: FEBRUARY 10
Fully Submitted Philippians 2:1-11 The Bible tells us that though Jesus was “in very nature God” (Phil. 2:6 NIV), He left heaven to come to earth, where He lived in submission to His Father’s plans. Giving the Father complete control … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, charles stanley, complete control, control, cross, decisions, divine love, earth, full submission, fully submitted, glorify God, glory, God, God's favor, God's will, grow, growth, heaven, heavenly father, in touch, Jesus, Justice, life, mercy, perfect trust, Repentance, sacrifice, sovereign control, submission, submitting to God, surrendered, trust, willingness
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IN TOUCH DAILY: FEBRUARY 6
A Passion to Know Christ Philippians 3:3-12 Claiming to know someone usually means we know facts about the person or simply are aware he or she exists. Unfortunately, that is how too many Christians “know” Jesus Christ—they’re aware He is … Continue reading
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Tagged answers, apostle paul, bible, blessed, charles stanley, Christ, christians, complete, cross, dig deep, experience, God, God's Word, heaven, in touch, intimacy, Jesus Christ, journey, know Christ, knowing Jesus, life, our Lord, passion, prayer, redemption, satisfaction, Savior, scripture, search, spiritual relationship, thirst, treasure, true knowledge
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IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 3
Look to Jesus and Live John 3:7-15 In John 3, the nighttime conversation Jesus had with Nicodemus is packed with symbolism. The Lord compared salvation to a second birth and likened the Holy Spirit’s work to wind. But then He … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 15
Screwtape strategizes with Wormwood, using Time as a weapon: I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war—what they naïvely call ‘The War’!—and am not surprised that there is a corresponding lull in … Continue reading
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