Month: December 2024

Righteous Living

Posted: December 19, 2024

Jesus offers peace: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.”1 Don’t look for peace in this world. You won’t find it. So, how can we be at peace in a nonpeaceful world? By living righteously. Doing the right thing—not the correct

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How Can These Things Be?

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: December 12, 2024

Nicodemus was intelligent and respected. He was a leader, “a ruler of the Jews.”1 He had heard that Jesus was upsetting his colleagues with his pious words about the temple. Jesus had caused an uproar there by overturning tables and driving everyone out. He was speaking disrespectfully to the Jews and creating confusion. Nicodemus had

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Truly Free

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: December 5, 2024

When people talk about freedom, it’s generally in the context of government and country. Jesus talked about freedom. But his freedom is much broader. It is spiritual freedom, which is misunderstood and downplayed and even dismissed by many people. It is, however, the most important freedom that we have. One time when Jesus was talking

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