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I Guess This is My Life Now
When I am feeling uncomfortable, I find it difficult to remember how it felt to be
comfortable. Perhaps some examples from my own life will sound familiar to you.
By day three of a head cold, I can no longer remember what it feels like to breathe
through my nose. At this point, I am tempted to think, “I’m sure it was nice
breathing through my nose, but I guess this is my life now.” When I am eating
tortilla chips or popcorn, something gets stuck among my teeth and gums and no
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In Luke 16:22-24, Jesus provides a glimpse into the world of the dead. The passage is a part of the story of the rich man and Lazarus that Jesus told in the same chapter.
A very rich man lived in luxury and dressed in fine clothing while a man named Lazarus lived in poverty. Lazarus sat at the rich man’s gate covered in sores and begging for the crumbs that fell from his table. The unnamed rich man refused to share from his wealth with the…
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“If we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another…” (1 John 1:7).
We sometimes say that being a Christian has not only the “vertical” dimension of fellowship with God, but also the “horizontal” dimension of fellowship with God’s people. Both of those dimensions are highlighted in Ephesians 2. Once spiritually dead in their sins, the Ephesians had now been made alive in Christ, reconciled to God (verses 1-7). That’s the vertical dimension. But that wasn’t all. These Gentiles, once “far off”…
