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A Meditation For a Long Winter’s Night

February 4, 2015

Devotionals

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God thunders wondrously with his voice;     he does great things that we cannot comprehend.    For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’     likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.    He seals up the hand of every man,     that all men whom he made may know it.    Then the beasts go into their lairs,     and remain in their dens.    From its chamber comes the whirlwind,     and cold from the scattering winds.   By the breath of God ice is given,     and the broad waters are frozen fast.   He loads the thick cloud with moisture;     the clouds scatter his lightning.   They turn around and around by his guidance,     to accomplish all that he commands them     on the face of the habitable world.   Whether for correction or for his land     or for love, he causes it to happen.  → Read more...

The Grace in Snow

January 17, 2008

Calvary

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Last week, I talked about attending a service at Mars Hill where my wife and I heard Rob Bell present a sermon on two of the most powerful words in the Christian world: grace and peace. (If you missed the email last week, you can find it in our eLetter archives here along with many other ones. Nifty, huh?) Well, ever since I heard the sermon, I had been trying to think of examples in which God provides hints of His grace and His peace to today’s broken world, seemingly so far removed from the amazing miracles and events of the Old Testament and the New Testament life of Jesus Christ.  → Read more...



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