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How Hard Were Their Hearts?
As belief continued to spread among the people, it did nothing but add to the Pharisees’ growing anger and their hearts became more hardened every day. What should have been a time of rejoicing at the coming of the Messiah, and the fulfillment of prophecy, instead turned into a fight for the hearts of the people.
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Throwback Thursday: Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
“Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain” was originally published on September 12, 2025
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Wednesday’s Watch: If Jesus Was Just a Man… Explain This
In this week’s Wednesday’s Watch I am sharing a video from J. Warner of Cold-Case Christianity. In this video he talks about how Jesus has had an enormous influence on literature, art, music, and education. So much so in fact, that you could recreate most of the biblical accounts of Jesus through the mediums of literature, art, and music from the first century alone even if all biblical transcripts were lost.
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Monday Meditation: James 5:13
This week’s meditation is on James 5:13: Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
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Sunday Morning Praise Song: ‘Jesus Paid it All’
Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. (1 Chronicles 16:23 ESV) This week’s praise song is “Jesus Paid it All” by Kim Walker-Smith.
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The Parable of the Dishonest Manager
The parable of the dishonest manager comes to us in Luke, and for me this was one of the hardest parables to understand. I kept asking myself: why would Jesus be commending or praising the manager’s immoral behavior and dishonesty? It simply made no sense to me and I have struggled for a long time trying to understand it.
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Throwback Thursday: Receive the Kingdom of God Like a Child
Originally published on August 22, 2025 Skeptics like to use this verse as an ad hominem attack against Christians, saying you have to be simple-minded and just blindly follow religion without rationalizing or thinking about it.
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Wednesday’s Watch: How to Answer ‘Science Disproves God’
In this week’s Wednesday’s Watch is Frank Turek answering a Christian’s question on how to answer a person who believes science disproves God.
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Monday Meditation:
This week’s meditation is on Isaiah 58:11: And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
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Sunday Morning Praise Song: ‘Flowers’
Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. (1 Chronicles 16:23 ESV) This week’s praise song is Phil Wickham and Jamie MacDonald singing “Flowers.”
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How great the chasm that lay between us.
How high the mountain I could not climb.
In desperation, I turned to heaven,
And spoke Your name into the night.
Then through the darkness, Your loving kindness,
Tore through the shadows of my soul
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I appreciate how this series pairs scripture with a specific song each week. Opening with 1 Chronicles 16:23 sets a…
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Thank you so much for stopping by, and thank you for the compliment! I will continue posting a weekly praise…