August 13
CHRIST IS CALLING: “The Master has come and is calling for you” (Jn 11:28). Peter deeply appreciated the Lord’s calling on his life and made it a theme of his letters. He tells us that we have every reason to...
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August 12
JESUS the TRUTH (Jn 14:6): “And the governor asked Him, saying, ‘Are You the King of the Jews?’ So Jesus said to him, ‘It is as you say’” (Mt 27:11). A story is told in Today in the Word (Aug...
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August 11
CHRIST INCORRUPTIBLE: “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible…be honor and glory forever and ever” (1 Tim 1:17). The word aphthartos, here translated “immortal,” is found 7x in the NT, and in all instances should be translated “incorruptible.” Paul records...
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August 10
CHRIST the PARADOX: “As deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing,...
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August 9
OUR ABSENT but RETURNING LORD: “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). “Blessed” here could be translated “happy,” and—knowing what we know about the promised return of our Champion—we...
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August 8
JESUS “FAITHFUL and TRUE” (Rev 19:11). “Faithful” (pistos) refers to one who “can be relied on…in the transaction of business, the execution of commands, or the discharge of official duties”; while “true” (alethinos) speaks of “that which has not only...
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August 7
CHRIST the RESTORER: Of the Good Shepherd it says, “He restores my soul” (Ps 23:3). Wilbur Smith, in his Treasury of Books for Bible Study, spoke of G. Campbell Morgan’s preaching as “the greatest Biblical preaching of the twentieth century.”...
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