January 13
“We preach CHRIST CRUCIFIED” (1 Cor 1:23). What self-respecting Jew would ever glory in a cross, the embodiment of a curse and shame? Erich Sauer writes in his classic In the Arena of Faith: Years ago we were in the...
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January 12
CHRIST the HIGHEST (Isa 52:13). David Baron, in The Servant of Jehovah, explains, “The climax in the height of Christ’s exaltation, as set forth by the three verbs in this sentence, is expressed by the word m’od, literally, “very much,”...
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January 11
CHRIST “the END of the LAW to everyone who believes” (Rom 10:4). Come, man woman, do you believe? No weightier question can be asked. “Do you believe on the Son of God?” And what is it to believe? It is...
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January 10
CHRIST ALWAYS WITH YOU (Mt 28:20). F.B. Meyer writes: “In the early morning, as soon as you awake, remember that you are in the very presence of God, who has been watching beside you through the long, dark hours; look...
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January 9
CHRIST our CAPTAIN (Heb 2:12). “It was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Heb 2:10). Faith...
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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...
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January 7
CHRIST the REDEEMER (Isa 59:20). My friend Gerald and I were visiting some believers living along the shore of the beautiful Gaspé Peninsula in Québec. En route, we stopped on a high promontory overlooking the famous Percé Rock. Perched beside...
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