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Romans 4:13-25 “Keeping Promises”
The modern views of God as a made-up creation of a human’s need for meaning and a way to explain what has not yet been otherwise explained. The implied nature of that God is that we can shape God to answer anything or nothing. In that vacuum, others will say they have the greater promise…
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Day 7 Time in the Mountains
We are called to be resting in the arms and heart of God. When we sing, study, serve, forgive, and celebrate the God-with-us in the Spirit we are usually more active; it is not a day for sleeping.
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Day 9 How Fast is Fasting?
Spiritual fasting becomes a spiritual discipline, not just from depriving the body but when we also shift our attention to the time and energy needed to grow in God.
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Day 8 Many Footprints Make Our Foundations
Read: Exodus 26.14-26 (NRSV) One of the amazing features of the Hebrews wandering in the wilderness is that their place of worship was a mobile tent of meeting. It had tall walls made of multiple frames and panels stretched over poles of cedar. Silver bowls were located at the lower ends of the poles. In…
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Day 6 Manna for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Read: Exodus 16:35 (NRSV) As slaves, the Hebrews ate from the “fleshpots” in Egypt. Yes, they were slaves, but the food bar was as dependable and easy to find as Golden Corral. On the journey out of Egypt and toward the Promised Land, God provided daily bread called ‘manna.’ Every day manna appeared on the…
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Day 5 Preparing the Body, Preparing the Spirit
Read: Genesis 50:2-3 (NRSV) The ancient Egyptians developed a detail process of embalming a body far beyond practicality as an art form and a hope that it would prepare a person for their spiritual after-life. After thousands of years archaeologist who uncover these remains find the dried-up version of what was left unused in the…
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Day 4 Marriage at Forty

These forty days are our time to focus our spiritual maturity as the priority for the rest of our lives.
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Day 2 “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness?”
Noah and his family are placed in the process of God’s cleaning work, to be ‘saved’ from certain death and enjoy the fruit of God’s righteous life.
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1 Corinthians 9:16-23 “Let’s Go to the Neighbors
As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she…
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Jonah 3:1-5, 10 “Get up, and Go”
Third Sunday after the Epiphany – January 24, 2021 Photo: https://g.co/arts/MrXXqjJwnQ1PxEjC8 Video: HTTP: “The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word…
