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January 19, 2026 — Love Living? Live Loving!
“Relying on God” wrote C.S. Lewis, is “to start all over every day, as if nothing has yet been done.” Have you heard of an antimetabole? No, it’s not an ancient sea creature or a newly-discovered subatomic particle. It’s “a rhetorical technique of reversing word order in successive clauses.” Here’s a famous one. “It’s not the…
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January 19
“CHRIST is ALL” (Col 3:11). Christ is all in creation and in control: “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things,…
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January 19 Petition Mission
“We pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20, KJV). Harry Ironside tells of visiting an emaciated hospital patient who was nearing death: “I told him I was anxious to know how he stood as to the matter of his soul’s salvation. ‘Oh,’ was the reply, ‘I’m all right as…
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January 19
Let others keep quiet about hell if they wish—I dare not. I see it plainly in Scripture, and I must speak about it. What would you say about the man who saw his neighbor’s house burning and never raised the cry of “Fire”? Call it bad taste, if you like, to speak about hell. Call…
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January 18
CHRIST UNSEEN yet SEEN: “The world will see Me no more, but you will see Me” (Jn 14:19). F.B. Meyer writes, “We may enjoy the perpetual recognition of the presence of Christ. Nothing makes men so humble yet so strong as the vision of Christ. When Isaiah beheld His glory more resplendent than the sheen…
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January 18 Petition Mission
“And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him…But He answered her not a word” (Mt 15:22-23). It is evident that at no time in the progress of this experience did Jesus mean to refuse this woman’s plea. His cold silence was not denial. His apparent refusal was not…