August 31, 2018
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The Connect Devotional
Words and speech can be cheap if they aren’t backed by action and truth.
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August 30, 2018
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
Today’s passage circles back around diagnostically. If we feel no pity when faced with a brother or sister in need, something has gone wrong with our relationship with God....
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August 29, 2018
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The Connect Devotional
Compassion is the most important action in the face of need....
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August 28, 2018
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
As a church community, we are blessed to have some in our midst who have material possessions and others who are in need....
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August 27, 2018
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The Connect Devotional
We need help to move toward real love. Our love-compass is broken. It spins and spins in circles because the magnetic power of our own neediness overwhelms everything in our orbit. We need Jesus to settle us so that we can love....
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August 10, 2018
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The Connect Devotional
Proclaiming the good news about Jesus Christ completes our joy. It satisfies some need deep within us. It terrifies and blesses us. And it can change the world.
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August 9, 2018
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The Connect Devotional
The purpose of proclamation is connection: connection with each other and, ultimately, with God. Fellowship. ...
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August 7, 2018
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
Try letting the Holy Spirit guide your reading today...
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August 6, 2018
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
A co-opted Jesus is not Jesus. He doesn’t work for our political or philosophical schemes. He stands on his own feet. Mash him together with the rest of that and you’ll lose him altogether. ...
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August 2, 2018
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
Jesus breathes new life into us as his love invites us to live with him in a larger, clearer, brighter world. ...
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August 1, 2018
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Category:
The Connect Devotional, Weekly Music Notes
The clearest picture of love isn’t buried in some corner of the future or hiding in some region of the present. You can see love as easily as you can see your own shadow … if you’ll look....
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