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It’s a Wonderful Life: Video #5

No, John. Jumping won’t solve anything. Even George Bailey couldn’t jump without saving somebody else. Poor George thought his life was a failure. He couldn’t see that all his failures and disappointments ended up in making someone else’s life better.  … Continue reading

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It’s a Wonderful Life: Video #4

This episode’s story is about a Nobody who desires to be a Somebody but is not recognized by a Somebody who should know better. Just because he’s speaking to a Nobody from another generation, that should not make any difference. … Continue reading

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It’s a Wonderful Life: VIDEO #3

It’s official. Everybody is a nobody. No one can measure up to the standard of perfection required without Christ. Which means no one is anyone without grace. But Christ brings to us His great gift of Grace that upends God’s … Continue reading

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It’s A Wonderful Life

As we close out 2022, we turn your attention to everyone’s favorite Christmas Eve movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, that heart-warming story of how one man found out his life counted. We want you to know how much your life … Continue reading

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Wholly Holy

How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven No ear may hear His coming, but in this world of sinx Where meek souls will receive Him still, the … Continue reading

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Beyond the longest night

And when it’s day to me, it’s night to someone And when it’s night, you may not want to go on                       – Mark Heard For those in the northern … Continue reading

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Away in a manger

I have seen the son of man In the human caravan from the song “Rejoice” by John Fischer What if God was one of us? What would that mean? It would mean that God had two little feet and ten … Continue reading

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Surprised by Joy

What does the Jesus Movement have in common with Christmas? A lot. They’re both about Jesus and the gospel. Christmas is more than lights and tinsel and sleigh bells, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But it’s even more … Continue reading

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Keeping the main thing the main thing

The Jesus Movement was purely and simply an evangelistic gathering in of souls into the kingdom of God. It was all about the gospel. It was all about getting saved and being baptized. It’s hard to imagine a Christianity today … Continue reading

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Who’s in a hurry?

I received a letter from one of our MemberPartners yesterday about these posts this week about the end times. In it he mentioned how his dad, who was an evangelical missionary in the 1970s, used to tell him when he … Continue reading

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