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When We Turn on Each Other
Scripture Focus “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ But if you bite and devour one…
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Receiving an Unshakable Kingdom
Scripture Focus “See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. At that time his voice shook the earth, but now…
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Discipline That Transforms
Scripture Focus “It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we…
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Running the Race with Endurance
Scripture Focus “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,…
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Strangers Seeking a Better Country
Scripture Focus “These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they…
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Faith That Pleases God
Scripture Focus “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” — Hebrews 11:6 (ESV) Devotional Thought Hebrews 11 is often called the “Hall of Faith” because it highlights men…
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Living by Faith Until He Comes
Scripture Focus “Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, ‘Yet a little while,and the coming one will come and will not delay;but…
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Once for All: Christ’s Perfect Sacrifice
Scripture Focus “But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” — Hebrews 9:26 (ESV) Devotional Thought Hebrews 9 draws our attention to one of the most glorious truths in all of Scripture: Jesus…
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Written on the Heart
Scripture Focus “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they…
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Jesus Our Perfect and Eternal High Priest
Scripture Focus “But he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.” — Hebrews 7:24–25 (ESV) Devotional Thought One of the central themes of…
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