September 29
CHRIST the MAKER—and REMAKER: “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (Jn 1:3). But our Lord was not finished MAKING when the world was finished! Through His precious sacrifice, “He has MADE...
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September 28
JESUS, SUFFERER with HIS PEOPLE: “…if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together” (Rom 8:17). Wandaro, whose father was a witch doctor among the Wolayto people in southern Ethiopia, was invited one day to take...
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September 27
CHRIST in the NOW: “But the hour is coming, and now is…” (Jn 4:23). So was the hour coming, or had it arrived? The answer is, both. Time is a process, constantly changing. But time meets us in the moment,...
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September 26
CHRIST the WINE-MAKER: “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!” (Jn 2:10). As a young preacher, I came to...
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September 25
CHRIST the ABIDING ONE: “Abide in Me, and I in you” (Jn 15:4). James Hudson Taylor was born May 21, 1832, the only son of a druggist in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. A frail child, his education was sporadic, mostly taken...
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September 24
CHRIST the FORGIVING ONE: “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you” (Mt 9:2). What is the payment made so that God can forgive us? “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” (Col...
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September 23
CHRIST the MOTIVATOR: “For the love of Christ compels us” (2 Cor 5:14). Dr Helen Roseveare, medical missionary to the Congo, met the Lord personally at the age of 20 during a student retreat. She gave her testimony on the...
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