July 30, 2020
by Blake Barbera
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The Connect Devotional
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does theLordrequire of you?To act justlyand to love mercy and to walk humblywith your God (Micah 6:8).
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessionswas their own, but they shared everything they had.With great power the apostles continued to testifyto the resurrectionof the Lor...
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July 29, 2020
by Brian and Kathy Emmet
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The Connect Devotional
Act justly; love mercy; walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).
Selling their possession and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need There were no needy persons among them (Acts 2:45, 4:34).
This week's two passages from Acts both follow immediately upon the apostles' proclamation of the resurrection. Our passage from Acts 2 comes right after Peter's sermon on Pentecost...
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July 28, 2020
by Blake Barbera
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The Connect Devotional
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does theLordrequire of you? To act justlyand to love mercy and to walk humblywith your God" (Micah 6:8)
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teachingand to fellowship, to the breaking of breadand to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.All the believers were to...
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July 27, 2020
by Brian and Kathy Emmet
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The Connect Devotional
Act justly; love mercy; walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).
Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-37
As we enter this fourth and final week of our Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly series, we want to explore how the early church began to walk out the Jesus way. We'll use two passages from early in the Book of Acts, Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-37.
Luke authored both our Gospel of Luke ...
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July 24, 2020
by Brian and Kathy Emmet
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Weekly Music Notes, The Connect Devotional
What does the LORD require of you? To act justly, love mercyand walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost (Luke 19:10).
Are you catching echoes of the prodigal son story in the story of Zacchaeus? A son who has "un-son-ed" himself based on his attitudes and behavior a good shepherd/good Father who seeks the return a...
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July 23, 2020
by Brian and Kathy Emmet
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Weekly Music Notes, The Connect Devotional
What does the LORD require of you? To act justly, love mercyand walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost (Luke 19:10
As we have been attending to the perhaps familiar "Zacchaeus story" this week, it's important to set it in its wider context. Good Bible reading doesn't just attend to a given passage, it also notices...
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July 22, 2020
by Blake Barbera
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does theLordrequire of you? To act justlyand to love mercy and to walk humblywith your God (Micah 6:8).
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold" (Luke 19:8).
The story of Zacchaeus the tax collector...
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July 21, 2020
by Lana Waters Liu
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The Connect Devotional
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).
Jesus said to him (Zacchaeus), "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:9-10).
Scripture tells us of two...
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July 20, 2020
by Leslie Ann Yell
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The Connect Devotional
Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
(Luke 19:1-10)
[Editor's note: we're continuing our Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly series, diving this week into the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. I think you'll find that our writers will help you see that there's more to this story than we thought!]
"Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little m...
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July 17, 2020
by Brian and Kathy Emmet
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Category:
The Connect Devotional
Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).
"Please come put your hands on my dying little girl and heal her," Jairus asked.So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed. And a woman (Mark 5:23-25).
The waiting is the hardest part: waiting for lab results, for the doctors to evaluate them, for the doctors to finally get to you and give you the news t...
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