After decades of captivity, God moved the ruler of an empire to set His people free, so they could return to their Promised Land.  This sovereign act of God should inspire us to respond to His call and return to a place of worship.

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Sometimes life makes us choose between grace and truth.  Can we be gracious while we hold evil doers accountable?  Does grace allow us to differ about matters of truth?  In Jesus, truth and grace are fully revealed, empowering us to be both truthful and gracious.

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Unlike the gods of myth who are partially divine and partially human, Jesus is both fully God and fully human.  As both Son of God and Son of Man, He offers a meaningful way to restore our relationships with both our Heavenly Father and one another.

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When God started His family in the Garden, there was a man and a woman who had two sons.  That family fell apart, however, and countless generations later, brothers were still killing brothers.  Then Jesus comes to bring the family back together.



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The story in Genesis tells us that God creates light, separating it from darkness. John’s story develops that truth, reminding that Jesus is that light that scatters the darkness in our lives and in our world.

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John’s Gospel begins with a creation story that has a new twist.  He assures us that Jesus was there, “in the beginning”. He engages with us well before He is born in a Bethlehem stable.  What difference does this make in our lives? 

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A solid trust in God can quiet storms.  We will still have them. They will still knock us about. However, they can also drive us deeper into the safest place on earth, our awareness of the sovereign, loving and vigilant presence of God among us.

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God is not an unknown entity. He has been revealing Himself for generations.  As we hear and remember these stories from the past, they inform our expectations for the future.

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God responds to evil in ways we don’t always understand.  Does this mean He is not responding at all? Maybe the way He responds to evil should inspire our response to the broken world around us.

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Thinkers for thousands of years have asked why God allows evil people to prosper.  Habakkuk adds his complaint to this list.  What does this inspired complaint tell us about ourselves, our world and our God?

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