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Audio Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear Jesus.  And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”  (Luke 15:1-2) In response to this grumbling, Jesus tells three parables about things that are lost. First is the lost sheep (1/100) that the Shepherd...

Audio 25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.  (John 14:25-26)   What are some of the names that you answer to?...

Audio I have said these things to you to keep you from falling away. (John 16:1) Jesus predicts the future for His disciples and tells them what to expect.  As the God-man, He is the man that can rightly predict the future and tell us what to expect.  Though Christians know this, that doesn’t stop...

Audio God gives you the gift of a tongue. The next time the hot morning coffee refreshes you, thank God for the tongue. The next time you taste Sweet Frog or QT Milkshake, thank God for the tongue. The next time your spouse or parent or child or friend speaks kind and encouraging words to...

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights without whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.  Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of...

Audio Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.  Honor everyone.  Love the brotherhood.  Fear God.  Honor the emperor. (1 Peter 2:16-17) How is being a Christian simple?  How is being a Christian hard? In 1520, Martin Luther wrote a marvelous devotional...

Audio 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. (John 10) When is the sheep in the most danger...

Audio  19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them,  “Peace be with you.” 20When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw...

Audio Alleluia, Christ is Risen.  He is risen indeed. “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor....

Audio Really tragic books or really tragic and sad movies are always more difficult to get through the first time.  You don’t know how it will end, which makes the tragic and sad events much more tragic and sad. Once you know the happy ending it’s a little easier to get through the second and...