April 22, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Easter
| Tags: Easter, resurrection, Jesus, hope, death
Close your eyes and watch Lazarus stumbling his way out of the tomb. He’s miraculously alive yet still dragging the things of death. We do that, too. Christ’s death and resurrection gives us new life that is not defined as a journey to death. It’s life lived now in God’s love, to be fully lived when we pass into eternity. Why do we drag the trappings of the grave a...
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April 17, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Easter
| Tags: Easter, hope, resurrection
Tombs deeply affect Jesus. They move him to tears. His mission in the world is to end the darkness of the tomb for all of His creation. That is incredibly good news for us, yet we turn the celebration into bunnies and chocolate. On Monday morning, we want to roll over, cover our heads, dread the day. Like Martha, we don’t want the tomb opened being sure of the stench....
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April 10, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
Jesus tells a Christian: “I always have been and I always will be.”
The Christian asks, “What do you mean?” And Jesus replies, “God was looking at His creation and saw that you needed to be saved not only from each other but from yourselves, sin and darkness....
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April 1, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
| Tags: Jesus, Messiah, Jew
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Jesus ...
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March 25, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
What’s your gut reaction to words like Islam, Muslim, Allah, Quran? For most, I believe, it’s fear. How will Islam impact our lives?...
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March 18, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
Jesus teaches that suffering is a result of sin and is the byproduct of life in a broken and sinful world, and can be brought to a God-pleasing end. He teaches that taking on suffering brings redemption....
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March 10, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
| Tags: Reincarnation, religion
For the Hindu, you are an eternal being that has been “reincarnated” in your present form. You may not have a memory of your previous incarnations, but you have always existed and will continue to exist in future incarnations once this current life is done. ...
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March 6, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
truth
| Tags: belief, religion, truth
Simply put, everything cannot be true. You cannot say all religions are true unless you are willing to open the door for the reverse, that all religions are false...
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February 27, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
| Tags: Light, Racial Reconciliation, salt
The Take It Home in this series
offers Bible passages to reconsider, a personal story to see through other eyes, and exercises in personal reflection and prayer. This week we turn the corner taking action. We pray that the Holy Spirit will use these in moving you along in your journey of reconciliation with God and with all of His people....
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February 18, 2017
by Take It Home Team
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Category:
Social Issues
| Tags: Them, Racial Reconciliation, neighbor, others, unity
The Take It Home in this series offers Bible passages to reconsider, a personal story to see through other eyes, and exercises in personal reflection and prayer. We pray that the Holy Spirit will use these in bringing you along in your journey or reconciliation with God and with all of His people....
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