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One Purpose
There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.…
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The Next Day
The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his…
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Hardened
As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. When…
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Draw Me
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. John 6:44 The Father draws sinners to Himself. It is nothing we do. We can’t coax, cajole, argue, or coerce people into the Kingdom. The Father draws the sinner to Jesus…
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Quit Yer Yammerin’!
“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. John 6:43 A timely verse, and totally taken out of context for our purposes, but the principle is still intact: stop grumbling. I can only speak for myself, but I grumble about the weather, my job, politics, gas prices, food prices, internet slowness, car problems, computer glitches, processes that…