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New Year’s Plans?
A dear friend had the best stories. One’s about a fellow considered the smartest guy in town. Successful in business, he was enlarging his warehouse since he’d outgrown the old facilities. He was at the point in life where it was time to “take it easy—eat, drink, and be merry.” Who could blame him? He’d…
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January 8, 2026 — One More Thing, Lord!
Dust and ashes! Were they evidence that God had abandoned Job? Or the perfect place to find Him! Job isn’t quite finished. Having acknowledged that the Lord knows what He’s doing, and that he should not have spoken about things of which he was ignorant, he requests one more opportunity to speak. There were now…
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January 8
CHRIST the PRIZE (Php 3:14). James Gunn, in “The Christian’s Ambition,” explains that the word philotimeomai is found just 3x in the NT. Variously translated, it means something like “a desire or love for doing the honorable thing,” a good kind of ambitiousness. What are the three times which describe what ought to be our…
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January 8 Petition Mission
“I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men…For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:1-4). Jesus Christ, the divine Man, died…
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January 8
Is there a difference between the teaching of Paul and James on whether a person is saved by faith alone or by faith plus works? Paul writes: “If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. What does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted…
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January 7, 2026 — Job Gets It
Can’t see the forest for the Tree? The forest of hurts and slights and lies, for the Tree stained with blood! It has been a long time in coming, but Job finally speaks to the Lord. The last time he spoke (Job 40:3-5), he expressed his shock at—himself! “Behold, I am vile” (v 4). What had he…