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Today’s Encouragement is Isaiah 43:25 “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.” For My own sake – God speaks to His children here, centuries before Jesus came, and He tells us: I blot out your sins – no erasers back in theContinue reading “For my own sake”

Today’s Encouragement is Psalm 103:2-5 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, [3] who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, [4] who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, [5] who satisfies you with good so that your youth isContinue reading “Bless the Lord”

Today’s Encouragement is Psalm 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! Let us worship- Individually, privately, in church, in our bedroom, in the garden or in the woods.  (Why is it we don’t want anyone to see us worship God?) Not to be seen by people…Continue reading “Let us worship”

Today’s Encouragement is Mark 16:6 “And he said to them, ‘Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.’” He has Risen-  Friends He isn’t in the grave.  He isn’t walking around the multiple ’holy places’ in Israel. HeContinue reading “He is Risen”

Today’s Encouragement is Mark 16:2-4 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. [3] And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” [4] And looking up, they saw that theContinue reading “Who will roll away the stone”

Today’s Encouragement is Luke 23:48-49 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle [the crucifixion], when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. [49] And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things. Stood at a distance –Continue reading “Stood at a distance”

Today’s Encouragement is Mark 14:26 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. When they had sung –  Jesus and His disciples sang together…  after the Lords Supper, as He was preparing Himself to be arrested, beaten and crucified, They sang together.  Then they went to Gethsemane.   Wish we knewContinue reading “When they had sung”

Today’s Encouragement is Luke 9:62 “Jesus said to him, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’” Look back – Consider an ancient plow, probably pulled by an ox or cow. And the farmer who ‘puts his hand to the plow’.  The farmer guides theContinue reading “Looking back”

Today’s Encouragement is Deuteronomy 17:19 “And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them” Read in it all the days of hisContinue reading “Read the Word”

Today’s Encouragement is John 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). He could have:  Appeared to rulers and kings when He was resurrected, but appeared to Mary Been born in a palace instead of a barn Taught well-educated, erudite scholars the finer points ofContinue reading “He could have”