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Making Disciples Day 3: Teach God’s Word- All of It
Scripture Focus “How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house… for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.”— Acts 20:20, 27 (ESV) Devotional Thought Paul was a courageous teacher.…
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Making Disciples Day 2: Be Humble and Real
Scripture Focus “Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews.”— Acts 20:19 (ESV) Devotional Thought When Paul described his ministry to the Ephesian elders, he didn’t boast about miracles, churches planted, or crowds reached. Instead, he…
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Making Disciples: Day 1: Be with People
Scripture Focus “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia.”— Acts 20:18 (ESV) Devotional Thought When Paul gathered the Ephesian elders for a final farewell, he didn’t point to his sermons or his miracles. He reminded them…
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Making Disciples Like Paul
Scripture Focus “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; how I did not shrink…
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Crushing Division Before it Spreads
Scripture Focus “I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites… be wise as to what is good and…
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Bearing with the Weak
Scripture Focus “We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.” — Romans 15:1–2 (ESV) Devotional Thought In Romans 15, Paul challenges our assumptions about…
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When Confidence Crumbles
Scripture Focus “Peter answered him, ‘Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.’ Peter said to him, ‘Even if I must die with you,…
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Under His Wings
Scripture Focus “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” — Matthew 23:37 (ESV) Devotional Thought These words…
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A Beautiful Thing
Scripture Focus “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.” – Mark 14:6 (ESV) Devotional Thought In the home of Simon the leper, an unnamed woman enters quietly but purposefully. She carries an alabaster jar—filled with perfume so costly it could have…
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The One True Gospel- The Reason(s) for the Protestant Reformation
Scripture Focus “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if…
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