Walking with Jesus with Pastor Doug Anderson Podcast: Recent Episodes
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When you hear news of distant family or friends embroiled in disagreements how do you respond? Join me again with the apostle Paul in the great city of Ephesus in 55ad. As we saw yesterday Paul was experiencing both a wonderful response to his proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus in Ephesus, as well as great opposition from many people who rejected what Paul presented and they wanted Paul silenced! I explained to you yesterday that Ephesus was experiencing a great spiritual war as both Satan and Jesus battled for the soul of that city, one person at a time. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Yesterday we met a man named Apollos. He was an intelligent scholar, well-grounded in Old Testament Scriptures and a remarkably gifted communicator. He had come to Ephesus from Alexandria, Egypt. (Acts 18:24) It appears it didn’t take long for him to earn both a hearing and a following. The problem was Apollos was only PARTIALLY right in his teachings about the Bible and especially about Jesus. While Apollos was evidently convinced that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, he did not understand the full Gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus, nor the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Christians.(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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We understand that each of us builds our personal reputation every day, right? So, when your name is mentioned, what reputation descriptive words come immediately into the minds of people? Will you be satisfied to leave your reputation as it is, or are there some changes you’d like to make in the remaining time you have to live? Of course, none of us knows when our time will run out and we’ve written the final words of our life story, right? That is why the apostle Paul was led by the Holy Spirit to write about this issue of personal reputation in the fourth chapter of his first letter to his Christian friends in the Macedonian city of Thessalonica.(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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This is normally a special weekend of transition as our world enters the Christmas frenzy! For the next four weeks almost everything, almost everywhere, incessantly, will have a Christmas flavor and for the most part that will have little to do with Jesus Christ or God’s purpose in sending God the Son to earth! It will have everything to do with economics and the pursuit of personal happiness! (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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For us in America, politics is an all too frequent hot topic, especially in recent months. The same is true in Israel, and yesterday I left you in a tragic political moment. The tribal elders had rejected Samuel’s sons and called Samuel to find them a human KING! Their words are historic and cataclysmic in significance: “We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations…” (1 Samuel 8:19,20) (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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I wonder what images come to your mind when you hear the word “TEST”? Perhaps school classrooms and those dreaded experiences where you and I felt inadequate or ignorant? Or maybe the word “test’ gives you an image of a hospital and someone coming at you with a needle? Or maybe you are an athlete or military person, and you immediately think about battlefield competition? (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Leadership transitions are always delicate and potentially dangerous times, be it in a nation, a business, an organization or even a family. For the Israelites, the transition from Moses to Joshua was smooth and successful. Moses made it clear Joshua was God’s selection and Joshua stayed the course of Moses’ leadership style making sure he carefully discerned God’s direction, and then Joshua faithfully led the Israelites in obedience to God. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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On this the first Monday of 2025 the whole world wonders what this year will bring, to every nation, every city, every family, every person. World leaders, of course, are watching closely as two weeks from today a new American President and his leadership team assume responsibility to lead the free world. For God, of course, there are no questions about what will transpire this next year.(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: Jeremiah 7:1-11. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Debris piles everywhere… is what the pictures I have seen lately show me of North Carolina and Florida and Gaza and parts of Beirut and southern Lebanon and hundreds of cities in Ukraine. Death and destruction are happening in so many places around our world that it almost takes our breath away, doesn’t it? That’s how it seemed for people living in Israel 2700 years ago when the prophet Isaiah received and wrote down this brief, powerful message of HOPE from God: “Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.” (Is. 59:1)(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: Isaiah 59:1-4. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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As you reflect back over your lifetime, what has been the most outrageous, hard to believe event that you’ve witnessed or even heard about? Was it a tragedy or a wonderful miracle of great good for many people? Come with me again, back to Jerusalem, about 701bc for one of the most amazing, hard to believe events of all time. If you’ve been on the journey with us recently you know King Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem had been taunted by a vast army and an arrogant Sennacherib, emperor of the Assyrian empire, who was intent on conquering Jerusalem and the southern kingdom of Judah. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: Is. 37:33-38 & 2 Chronicles 32:20-23. Choose below to read or listen.Isa. 37:33-38 2 Chronicles 32:20-23 Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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As you think back over your lifetime, you probably have some key events which are very significant for you. You remember exactly where you were when it happened. If you are of the “builder generation” perhaps it’s the news of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, or maybe if you’re of the “boomer generation” it was the assassination of President John Kennedy, November 22, 1963? Or if you are a ‘millennial’ it is September 11, 2001 and the jet plane attacks of the Twin Towers in NYC and the Pentagon in Washington, DC? If you live in another country of the world there are probably major events in your country which have marked your life. Today, let’s return back to Jerusalem, Israel for a major event which shaped the lives of many people and Biblical history. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-4. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Today I’m preparing this edition of “Walking with Jesus” in a remote place, far up on the northern edge of one of the US States which borders Canada. I’m here having the privilege of opening God’s Word with a group of adults who are on a spiritual retreat and they’ve chosen this remote place because of its quietness, its serenity and the power of the word RESTORE! (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 24:4-16. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Have you ever been part of a large group of people facing a terrifying enemy and you felt helpless? Do you remember how you felt seeing the reports during COVID of people dying so fast in some parts of the world that morgues were unable to receive the bodies and cemeteries could not bury them fast enough? Do you remember the fear that gripped many people, cities and even nations? (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 20:1-13. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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We’ve all heard the phrase ‘separation of Church & State’. I wonder what it means to you, wherever you live in our world in 2024. Many countries in these days are experiencing national elections. Mexico has just elected their first woman president and did you know she has Jewish heritage? The Times of Israel reported of the new Mexican president: “Sheinbaum, a physicist turned politician, was born to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Bulgaria. She does not describe herself as Jewish but has said that both her parents were “of Jewish origin.” Like many Mexican Jews, she takes a secular approach to her faith.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/exit-polls-show-jewish-candidate-sheinbaum-set-to-become-mexicos-1st-woman-president/(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 17:1-11. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Have you ever found yourself in a ‘no-win’ situation? Did you look around at all the options you could imagine, yet it seemed they would all end in disaster? I think that’s exactly what Elisha and his servant might have felt that morning as they stepped out of their house early to greet a new day, only to discover they were surrounded on all sides by armed soldiers and chariots intent on harming them! There was no escape, no way out! (2 Kings 6:15) But then God gave His prophet Elisha miraculous spiritual vision which enabled him to see what was there but was invisible to normal human eyes. In fact in response to Elisha’s prayer, God gave the same miraculous, spiritual eyesight to Elisha’s servant and both of them stood there amazed that all around those enemy soldiers were horses and chariots of fire! (2 Kings 6:16,17) (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Kings 6:15-23. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Experiences which cause our heart to beat faster and maybe take our breath away are memorable and sometimes even leave us with life impacting changes, isn’t that true? Have you had some of those experiences in your life? What do you remember about them and how are those experiences still affecting you even now, perhaps years later? Come with me and let’s rejoin the old prophet Elijah as he is carefully, slowly easing his way out of a cave following a wind storm that was catastrophic, probably more terrifying than a tornado would be, as described in 1 Kings 19:11.(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 1 Kings 19:11-18. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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This is often a week of transition to SUMMER for many people. Two months from now the Paris Summer Olympic games 2024 will be underway! And in case you had forgotten, both the Republican National Convention (July 15-18) and Democratic National Convention (August 19-22) will happen in summer 2024! Summer vacations; weddings and graduations; career launches/changes and retirements; and so much more summer activity reminds us that life is about to get even busier! (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 1 Kings 19:7-11. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Our world loves winners, champions and victory celebrations, don’t we? You know the feeling I’m sure. You’ve had a victory of some type in your life and you feel great, perhaps a little invincible, at least for a few moments. Maybe you treat yourself to something special as a reward for your accomplishment!(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 1 Kings 19:1-8. Choose below to read or listen. Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “from bad to worse”. Perhaps you’ve watched it happen in a relationship or a business or the moral implosion of a nation. Let’s go back to Israel in about 870bc and let’s look closely at how the ‘northern kingdom’ Israel, under the leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, ‘went from bad to worse’. The closing Biblical line of our study yesterday said “Ahab did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.”(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 1 Kings 17:1-6. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Do you understand the power of ENCOURAGEMENT? When I was in College, a few years ago, I played on a sports team and we were very encouraged by the cheerleaders, in fact I married one of them, and she is still very encouraging to this day! Who are those people in your life who encourage you and who would say YOU are an encourager to them? Do you know this powerful verse in the Bible: “Let not any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” (Eph. 4:29) Can that be said of you my friends?(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 15:8-19. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Normally in America this is a wonderful time of the year with College graduations, weddings, new graduates launching careers and very soon High School graduations and summer vacations etc. But this year, these early days of May have been heartbreaking across America with College campus demonstrations and riots which have locked down campuses, cancelled classes and final exams, and even closed down graduation ceremonies. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 15:1-7. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Bullies have been a problem since the earliest days of neighborhoods and childhood playgrounds, and perhaps as you think back to your young years the word ‘bully’ brings up painful memories of some kid bigger than you picking on you. Sadly bullying has been an adult activity and with adults the damage inflicted is often fatal! Bullying comes in all forms, but with the advance of the internet, cell phones and particularly smart phones, cyber bullying is perhaps the newest form of this age old terrorism.(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 14:8-13. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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I don’t need to remind you that this is an election year in America. Last year the world was amazed as we watched the death of Queen Elizabeth and installation of Charles as King in England. Come with me again back to ancient Israel and let’s see how they handled leadership transitions and what we can learn from it today. In recent days in “Walking with Jesus” we’ve watched the united Kingdom of Israel, under the reigns of King David and then King Solomon, divide into two rival kingdoms. “Judah” was the name of the “southern kingdom” with its capital Jerusalem and “Israel” was the name of the “northern kingdom” with its capital Samaria. This division occurred at the death of King Solomon, when his son King Rehoboam assumed the throne of “Judah“; and his rival, King Jeroboam set up his throne over “Israel” in Samaria. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 13. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Take a stroll down your personal memory lane for a moment. Disobedience is defiant rebellion isn’t it, and it’s one thing in our families but it’s another thing with God, do you agree? (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 2 Chronicles 12. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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When you and I think of events which happen in our world that we attribute to God’s direct involvement in the affairs of humanity, I wonder if we assume God will always work in wonderful, hope filled miracles? Does it trouble you to consider that sometimes God brings discipline or judgment upon a person, or an organization, or even a nation which is painful, maybe even devastating? (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 1 Kings 12:20-24. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Oh my so much has happened in our world during this month of April. History is being written every day isn’t it? In addition to wars and political turmoil, if you look at these past weeks from a religious or spiritual perspective, we have walked through RAMADAN (Muslim month of fasting & prayer) and EASTER (Christian celebration of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection) and PASSOVER (Jewish celebration of God’s deliverance of their ancestors from slavery in Egypt). More than 3 Billion people in the world have engaged in very significant religious traditions this month, while at the very same time, the place in the world, to which all three of these great religious events point, is embroiled in warfare… again! (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: 1 Kings 11:26-35. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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When was the last time you were ‘filled with awe’? Holding a newborn baby only a few moments outside the womb? Watching a magnificent sunset or sunrise? Standing in a blizzard or a hurricane? Oh there are so many things that can almost take our breath away, but what about ‘spiritual awe’?(Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture is Ephesians 3. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Have you ever gone to a reunion, reconnecting with people you haven’t seen in many years? It’s fascinating to see how our physical appearance has changed in 25 or 50 years isn’t it? But even more exciting is to hear the life stories of the people we haven’t seen in so long. Would ‘transformation’ be a fair word to use as we contemplate how much we’ve changed in several decades? Did you know that by God’s design “Spiritual transformation” is far more powerful and dramatic than physical or social or emotional or professional transformation? And did you know God’s powerful “Spiritual transformation” can change a person almost instantly? (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: Acts 2:38-42. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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You and I live in a world of BLAME, don’t we? I suppose that’s part of the reason our nation is flooded with attorneys seeking to help people who have been injured in auto or work place accidents and other attorneys willing to help find cause for divorce or medical malpractice. No one wants to admit fault, even at high levels of leadership, even government leadership. (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today’s Scripture: Acts 2:36-38. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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I wonder if you'd agree that the word LOVE may be one of the most overused and least understood words in the English language?
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Today's Scripture is John 21. Choose below to read or listen.
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If you're about 30 years old or older, you remember the shock the world was in 22 years ago today, the 12 of September, right? Smoke was billowing up from New York City as both gigantic towers of the World Trade center had collapsed after being hit by two different commercial airplanes which had been hijacked. Thousands of people were dead, the global economic markets were in 'free fall', and a new word, "terrorist", was suddenly being heard on every news broadcast around the world. Also, names of places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, which most people of the world knew little about, were front page headline countries. Everything was changing so fast even 24-hour news organizations could not keep pace and feed the world accurate, fresh news. I wonder where you were when you first heard the news. What emotions did you feel? What thoughts did you have? How did it affect you that week, 22 years ago?
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Today's Scripture is 1 Cor. 11:23-26. Choose below to read or listen.
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I've now been in Israel a full week with a group of friends, visiting a variety of Biblical sites. It's summertime here in Israel so the weather is warm, perhaps some would say hot, the sky is cloudless blue all day, the sun is bright and can give you a good burn in one day. The air is dry, rain is extremely rare this time of year. I was last here 10 years ago and I am amazed at the changes, the growth, the increase in everything! As I've walked the streets, ridden in the tour bus from place to place, visited many Biblical sites, there's a powerful Old Testament chapter of God's promises which I'm sure for centuries seemed ridiculous, outrageous, impossible... but I see it happening today, now in the land of Israel. God's promises are being fulfilled; I've seen it with my own eyes. And I'm recording this in Jerusalem, so if you hear buses or cars outside, it's an example of this!(Click here to see full text, images and links) Today's Scripture is Ezekiel 36. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson“Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)Have a comment or question about today’s chapter? I’m ready to hear from you, contact me here.Interested in helping "Walking with Jesus" financially? Click here
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Every town and city have a history, would you agree? I wonder what you know about the story of your city. Of course, there's a business history, an educational history, and a political history for every town, but I'm asking about the SPIRITUAL history of your town. What has God done over the years, the decades, even the centuries of your city?
Today, I am awakening in Jerusalem, Israel, along with 44 other pilgrims and we are spending 10 days experiencing the places of the Bible together. I thought it might be interesting for us to take a break from Paul's letter to the Corinthians and allow me to invite you to join us in Israel, at least through "Walking with Jesus". Would you like that?
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Today's Scriptures are Jonah and Acts 9:36-42. Choose below to read or listen. Jonah 1
Acts 9:36-42
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Through our childhood and growing up years we all had our favorite adults, didn't we? Our favorite teachers, favorite coaches, favorite adult relatives, favorite athletes or musicians, maybe even favorite spiritual leaders, be they Rabbi, Priest, Pastor or Imam. Is that true for you today as an adult? We are with the apostle Paul as he has begun writing his first of two letters to the Christians in Corinth in late 54ad. Paul is in Ephesus and word has come to him that there are some problems in Corinth among these Christians and one of the issues is division motivated by the people having different favorite spiritual leaders.
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Today's Scripture is 1 Cor. 1:10-18. Choose below to read or listen.
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Encouraging words are always welcome, aren't they? But would you agree there's something special about receiving words of encouragement when they are WRITTEN in a card or letter? Encouragement, sadly, is becoming a lost attribute in our world. (Click here to see full text, images and links) Today's Scripture is 1 Thess. 1:2,3. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)Have a comment or question about today’s chapter? I’m ready to hear from you, contact me here.Interested in helping "Walking with Jesus" financially? Click here
DISTRACTIONS are a very real part of my day, every day, how about you? It's the reality of the busy, noisy world in which we live, right? So, what do you do about them? What are some of your best practices for dealing with distractions so you can keep your mind clear, your eyes focused on the road ahead, your ears alert to what you need to hear, and your heart undivided. Do you remember David wrote this powerful verse which I repeat to myself often when I sense that I'm getting distracted: "Teach me Your way O LORD and I will walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart that I may fear Your name. I will glorify Your name forever." (Ps. 86:11)(Click here to see full text, images and links) Today's Scripture is Acts 16:16-18. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)Have a comment or question about today’s chapter? I’m ready to hear from you, contact me here.Interested in helping "Walking with Jesus" financially? Click here
Are you a person who loves water? I mean lakes or oceans or rivers type of water. This weekend I left you standing on the riverbank of a river outside the city of Philippi in the region of Macedonia, toward the beginning of the year 50ad. We weren't there alone, for we had followed the apostle Paul, Silas, Timothy and Dr. Luke. Why to a river? Because it was the Sabbath and normally Paul would always seek out the Synagogue of a new town on the Sabbath, seeking the opportunity to speak there as a former Pharisee and then introduce the Gospel of Jesus the Messiah. But for the first time, on this Paul's second missionary journey, Paul and his team had reached a large city, to which God had led them, but there was no Synagogue, or at least Paul had not yet found it. (Click here to see full text, images and links) Today's Scripture is Acts 16:13-15. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)Have a comment or question about today’s chapter? I’m ready to hear from you, contact me here.Interested in helping "Walking with Jesus" financially? Click here
When you've been traveling, have you found yourself determined to reach a particular destination by a certain time, and you pressed on to meet yourself imposed deadline, perhaps traveling through the night or staying much longer on the road than you had anticipated? Let's join the apostle Paul and his traveling team, now four men in all. They are packed up and moving, with a newfound sense of excitement and determination to arrive! Where are they going? Well, let's join the travel log found in Acts 16 in the Bible, and find out!(Click here to see full text, images and links) Today's Scripture is Acts 16:11-13. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)Have a comment or question about today’s chapter? I’m ready to hear from you, contact me here.Interested in helping "Walking with Jesus" financially? Click here
You and I live in a world which can be very difficult, challenging, disappointing and even painful, right? We all need to develop methods to protect our hearts and minds from deep discouragement or even despair. I wonder what works for you. We are surrounded by people who turn to drugs or alcohol or other addictive things to numb their pain, and we all see the ravaging effects which are destroying millions of lives, families and entire cities. No matter where you live in the world, no matter the type of government of your country, our world is increasingly a dysfunctional place to live, do you agree? (Click here to see full text, images and links) Today's Scripture is 1 Peter 4:12-14. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)Have a comment or question about today’s chapter? I’m ready to hear from you, contact me here.Interested in helping "Walking with Jesus" financially? Click here
May I begin with a question today? Have you ever received a message from God which seemed simply too good to be true and then life got more difficult for you? Join me again today on a barren hillside in the area today known as Saudi Arabia. Moses is there with his flock of sheep, about the year 1450bc. A bush is on fire and Moses is standing there, bare foot, having taken off his sandals for this sacred, amazing encounter with God. I say he's standing but considering what he is experiencing as the voice of God is speaking to Moses from that burning bush, perhaps Moses is kneeling by now or maybe laying prostrate, flat on his face.
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Today's Scripture is Exodus 5 & 6. Choose below to read or listen.Exodus 5
Exodus 6
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When you think of a daring rescue mission what picture comes to your mind? Perhaps a secret military mission of experts to find and rescue a valuable prisoner being held behind enemy lines? Or perhaps a carefully planned mission to rescue hostages being held by terrorists? So, what event in your estimation has been the greatest rescue mission of all time?
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Today's Scripture is Exodus 3:1-10. Choose below to read or listen.
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I wonder if you've ever had to provide some proof of your personal identity. Perhaps you were traveling and as you approached the border of your country the border guards asked you for identification papers? Perhaps you were applying for a bank loan, or filling for a marriage license, or some other legal document, and you were required to provide proof of your identification? May I ask this question... of all your identities, which is most important to you?
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Today's Scripture is 1 John 3:9-11. Choose below to read or listen.
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I wonder how many of you have ever served as a lifeguard at the beach or a swimming pool? Or perhaps some of you have served as 'first responders', trained to be among the first people to come to the aid of someone whose life is at risk. In both cases often seconds count and both your words and actions are vital if you will save the person from death. Paul the apostle is nearing the end of the first of his many letters. This one, which we know as Galatians, Paul is writing to Gentile Christians in central Asia as confusion has come through the contrary teachings of some teachers who followed Paul after he left the towns he and Barnabas had visited. Word had come to Paul in Syrian Antioch that some of those who had believed Paul's Gospel and trusted in Jesus for their salvation, were now doubting the truthfulness of Paul's words and some were turning away from what they had believed.
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Today's Scripture is Galatians 6:1, 2. Choose below to read or listen.
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I wonder if you've ever found yourself discouraged because a person you were helping to grow and develop in their maturity has stumbled and retreated back into some former ways of life which are self-destructive? Perhaps you were helping someone kick the smoking habit, or get off alcohol or drugs, or maybe break their gambling habit? It's so hard to watch them fall back into the chains of their past when they were making such good progress, would you agree?
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Today's Scripture is Galatians 4:8-20. Choose below to read or listen.
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May I invite you to return with me to Syrian Antioch and the little house where Paul is writing his first letter we today know as Galatians, in our Bible. I left you yesterday reflecting on one very, very powerful statement which Paul wrote: "When the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive the full rights of sons." (Gal. 4:4,5) Today let's dig into the last phrase of that powerful statement.
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Today's Scripture is Galatians 4:4-7. Choose below to read or listen.
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Are you a 'planner' or someone who likes to do things spontaneously? When you are preparing for a trip away, do you make detailed lists and pack several days in advance, or throw things together into a bag the day of your journey?
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Today's Scripture is James 4:13-17. Choose below to read or listen.
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Do you know anyone with wild emotional swings depending on the circumstances of life? Do you also know people who are very constant, stable in their emotions? These days we're watching and listening as James the apostle is writing his letter of encouragement and exhortation to the first century Jewish Jesus followers scattered all across the Roman Empire. These dear people lived during a very difficult time of persecution and thus emotions were always in flux and sometimes explosive. Come on, let's join a few others who've gathered in James' little house in Jerusalem as he writes. He's in his fourth chapter as he picks up his stylus: "Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come near to God and He will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded." (James 4:7,8)
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Today's Scripture is James 4:7-10. Choose below to read or listen.
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For many of you today is a holiday from work and school. I hope it's a great day for you. The purpose of this holiday has long been forgotten as most people simply enjoy it as a great three-day weekend transitioning from summer to fall. But as you perhaps know, this day was declared a holiday to celebrate an important aspect of our God design as human beings. God designed humanity with the desire and even passion to WORK, to accomplish things, to improve things, and then the desire to work TOGETHER to accomplish more than we can alone! Now of course Labor Day has never been a religious holiday nor a day of worship. Organizers of this holiday have made it about celebrating the accomplishments of mankind through our hard work. But here and now I want to declare that Labor Day is fundamentally a celebration of what God did in the Garden of Eden when He created the first human Adam and put him in the garden. Genesis 2:15 says "The LORD God took the man [Adam] and put him in the Garden of Eden to WORK it and take care of it." Amen my friends, I hope that gives you a fresh perspective on this day called Labor Day!
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Today's Scripture is James 4:4-8. Choose below to read or listen.
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I wonder how many of you have pets and how long you've worked at taming or training those animals? Perhaps we could apply the question even to children: how long and hard have we adults worked to train and even tame the behavior and mouths of our children or grandchildren? Welcome back to our time with the apostle James as he is writing the first letter going out from the apostles to the early Christians about 20 years after Jesus has left Jerusalem returning to heaven. James was a brother to Jesus, growing up in the same home, and yet James rejected the notion that Jesus was anything other than a normal older brother. It seemed preposterous to James that Jesus might somehow be God in the flesh, even when James began hearing of miracles and Jesus' powerful messages.
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Today's Scripture is James 3:7-12. Choose below to read or listen.
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When we think about these wonderful, complex, sophisticated human bodies God has designed for us, which part most amazes you? Maybe the EYE or the EAR or the HEART or LUNGS or BRAIN? But would you consider the TONGUE and its remarkable ability and how it functions in so many aspects of our life? May I ask this really important question about your tongue... is it always under your control? Join me again with the apostle James, in about the year 48ad, in the room where he is writing the first letter going out from the apostles to the first generation of Christians all across the Roman Empire.
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Today's Scripture is James 3:1-6. Choose below to read or listen.
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When you watch people interacting with each other, I wonder what convinces you that a person is married and that they love their spouse? Is it the ring on their finger? Do they have their marriage license framed and hanging on the wall of their home? Or is it the words they speak about their spouse when their spouse is NOT present, or the way they speak to their spouse when they are together in public? Or is it that they hold hands as they are walking in public places, or does the husband open the door for his wife and allow her to pass through the doorway first? Or is it that she prepares his meals and washes his clothes? So, what is it my friends? So, here's a bigger question: what is the evidence and the measurement of the love for and the relationship a person has with God?
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Today's Scripture is James 2:26; 1 John 3:6-9. Choose below to read or listen.James 2:26
1 John 3:6-9
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Yesterday I left you sitting in a room with one of the apostles of Jesus named James. Perhaps you remember James and Jesus had a unique relationship... they were siblings! Yes, James was the son of Mary and Joseph, born sometime after Jesus, so everyone understood them to be brothers. From what we know James did NOT believe Jesus was who He claimed to be, nor did he evidently believe the preposterous stories his parents told him about Jesus' birth... at least not while Jesus was alive. But everything changed with Jesus' resurrection! James could not deny the clear evidence...
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Today's Scripture is James 2:26. Choose below to read or listen.
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I wonder what you feel when you see someone being shown either favoritism or disrespect? Sadly, it happens all too often in every part of the world. A phrase that has been coined in the recent past is 'type casting'. You understand, don't you? It's when prejudice is evident in the manner a person is being treated and people presume it is because they appear to be of a particular ethnicity or socio-economic class, or they are dressed in a particular way, or they speak a particular language, or they have tattoos or piercings, or their hair is dyed a fluorescent color or is dreadlocks.
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Today's Scripture is James 2:1-13. Choose below to read or listen.
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Have you been frustrated or even wounded by a person who hands out very good advice to others but does not 'walk their talk'? I mean the person who does not follow their own advice. Their actions contradict their words! Do you know anyone like that?
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Today's Scripture is James 1:23-27. Choose below to read or listen.
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I wonder today what the biggest temptation will be that you and I will face? Will slick marketing cause you to seriously consider an unnecessary purchase? Will difficult circumstances tempt you to take matters into your own hands and maybe do something radical or illegal? We all face a wide range of temptations every day, and as we're sitting with James, while he's writing his letter to Jewish Jesus followers across the Roman empire about the year 48ad, James is led of the Holy Spirit to address this issue head on.
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Today's Scripture is James 1:13-18. Choose below to read or listen.
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Our title, "Walking with Jesus" is rooted in my wondering what it would have been like to walk along those dusty roads with Jesus and His disciples. Or a few years later with Paul and his traveling companions. That's where we are today. Paul and Barnabas concluded their time on Cyprus Island where they had begun their courageous proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus even including a powerful blinding confrontation with Elymas the sorcerer who tried to turn Sergius Paulus the proconsul away from God's truth. (Acts 13:4-12)
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Today's Scripture is Acts 13:36-39. Choose below to read or listen.
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A change of mind and heart can be a very important event, can't it? In our journey with Barnabas, Saul who had changed his name to Paul, and John Mark, we saw yesterday that the proconsul of Cyprus Island, Mr. Sergius Paulus changed his mind and accepted the Gospel as he heard it from them. We have no record of how that affected the growth of the Jesus movement on Cyprus Island, but we should assume it was significant.
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Today's Scripture is Acts 13:13. Choose below to read or listen.
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Have you had the experience of being in worship, either alone or with a group, when suddenly you sensed GOD was speaking to you, calling you to some specific action? What did you do with that experience my friends? Yesterday I left you arriving in Antioch, Syria with Barnabas, Saul and their young friend John Mark. They'd traveled from Jerusalem about 400 miles so it would have taken several days, and I imagine John Mark had heard many things about this great city and the Jesus movement which had earned the nickname "Christians"!
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Today's Scripture is Acts 13:2-5. Choose below to read or listen.
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Did you ever have the chance, as a teenager or young adult, of being invited by an adult you respected to travel on an adventure with them? If so, did you accept the invitation and how did that trip affect your life? Today, let's join an adventure exactly like that and see what happened, and what we can learn. Do you remember yesterday we watched the apostle Peter standing in a dark street at night, knocking on the door of a house, anxiously hoping an answer would come soon? Peter was frightened! He'd just been freed from King Herod's prison by an angel and had come to the house of a woman he knew named Mary, because often the Christians gathered in her home for prayer.
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Today's Scripture is Acts 12:25-13:1. Choose below to read or listen.
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How do you respond when you first meet someone you've heard a lot of negative things about? Or have you ever been in the situation when, as you were meeting someone for the first time you discover they already have some preconceived wrong ideas about you, based on some incorrect rumors they have heard about you? Perceptions are hard to change aren't they, and they can really set us up for conflict, right? Let's rejoin Saul and his traveling companions on the road from Damascus, Syria back to Jerusalem, about 2000 years ago. This Saul is entirely different from the man, by the same name, who was on this very same road going the opposite direction only a few weeks before. What changed, you ask?
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Today's Scripture is Acts 9:26-30. Choose below to read or listen.
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In most periods of 'transition' into a new job or joining the military or other similar major life transitions, there is often an orientation process to help you learn a new culture, new value systems, sometimes even a new language. A fairly modern term for this is 'onboarding'. It means helping a newcomer fit as quickly as possible into their new group or assignment or location. Yesterday I left you with a large group of people experiencing all the adjustments of transition as they had trusted Jesus to be their Savior and were 'onboarding' into a rapidly expanding group of Jesus followers. In fact, they were the first wave in the "Jesus movement" which would sweep across the Roman empire in the first century and eventually all around the world... to where YOU live today! Dr. Luke gives us the record of those days in Acts 2.
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Today's Scripture is Acts 2:46, 47. Choose below to read or listen.
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If you have an interest in history then you know this date 06 June is very significant for the freedom of Europe, for this was "D-Day" in 1941!! The remarkable events of that day began turning the tide in pushing back the evil darkness of the Nazi devastation of so many parts of Europe and the near annihilation of Jews worldwide. I wonder how the events of that day have affected freedom where you live?
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Today's Scripture is Acts 2:40-42. Choose below to read or listen.
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Have you ever been in a crowd of people listening to someone speak when suddenly what they said pierced your soul like a sword? How did you respond? Yesterday I left you standing in a crowd in Jerusalem about 2000 years ago, and Peter, the flamboyant disciple of Jesus, was finishing a spontaneous speech which had everyone holding their breath! He'd just made a statement which pierced the hearts and challenged the minds of his listeners.
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Today's Scripture is Acts 2:37-40. Choose below to read or listen.
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I'm sure you've had the experience where in the middle of a story, you are asked to wait, maybe an extended time, for 'the rest of the story'! Well, I know that's how I left you yesterday my friends, as we were in the middle of a confused, somewhat agitated crowd, in Jerusalem about 2000 years ago. The story is in Acts 2. Jerusalem was packed to overflowing with people from all over the known world who had come for the annual Pentecost Festival. A strong wind sound, like a tornado, had beckoned a huge crowd to gather in one part of Jerusalem.
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Today's Scripture is Acts 2:22-36. Choose below to read or listen.
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I'm sure we've all had the experience of standing in a crowd confused by what is happening all around us, right? Was that a frightening experience for you? I have a large scar near my right ankle which reminds me of the terrifying day I was almost trampled to death in a crowd. Crowds don't do well with confusion or frustration or even unbridled excitement. Quickly a crowd can turn into a mob, an angry, uncontrollable mob bent on destruction. Yesterday I left you standing in the middle of a confused crowd in the overcrowded city of Jerusalem, about 2000 years ago, at the Pentecost Festival.
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Today's Scripture is Joel 2, 3. Choose below to read or listen.Joel 2-3 Joel 2
Joel 3
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As we are working our way through the famous prayer Jesus used as an example for His disciples when teaching them about the power and reality of PRAYER conversation with God Almighty, we've come to this statement: "And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil." (Matt. 6:13) Now I wonder what that means to you my friends, wherever you live in cities and towns all around our world? Since this prayer is being offered up TO God, does the first part of the statement seem strange? Would God ever lead us INTO temptation? If so, why? If not, was this just a poor choice of words by Jesus?
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Today's Scripture is Matthew 6:13 & James 1:13, 14. Choose below to read or listen.Matthew 6:13
James 1:13, 14
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I wonder if you've ever been caught in the web of 'unforgiveness'? I'm sure you know what it feels like but let me ask you, which is worse... you carrying a grudge and refusing to forgive someone for the wrong they've done to you OR you feeling the weight of someone who refuses to forgive you for what you've done to them, no matter how many times you've tried to apologize? (Click here to see full text, images and links)
Today's Scripture is Matthew 5:23,24. Choose below to read or listen.Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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In the weeks following Easter, I would imagine the greatest challenge facing the disciples and other friends of Jesus was adjusting back to the 'new normal' of life without Jesus PRESENT everyday with them. For several months they had literally 'walked with Jesus' every day, and now, following the horrific experience of Easter weekend, they knew Jesus was ALIVE, but He was not always present with them!
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Today's Scripture is
Matthew 5:11,12; John 15:18-16:11.
Choose below to read or listen. Matthew 5:11,12
John 5:18-27
John 16:1-11
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When was the last time you had such an important decision to make you couldn't sleep the night before? In these days we are together on a journey with Jesus toward His Easter weekend, in my view the most important weekend in all of human history! We've come to a very important day in that journey, so important Jesus spent the entire night before praying about the selections He would make that day. Come with me, let's join the story as told by Matthew, Mark and Luke in the Bible. Luke 6:12 says "Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the entire night praying to God." One of the personal trademarks of Jesus' life and training of His disciples was the frequency and priority of prayer...communication with God.
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Or copy and go to this link: https://walkingwithjesus.ddawj-365.com/thursday-31-march-2022-apostles-luke-612-14/ Today's Scripture is Luke 6:12-14. Choose below to read or listen.
Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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Sometimes people are famous for what they have accomplished, other times they are famous for what they said. Jesus Christ is famous for BOTH, would you agree? The past two days we've been eavesdropping in on one of the most famous conversations of all time. It was held at night, in an unexpected encounter between Jesus, a newcomer on the public stage, and Nicodemus, a high-ranking, well-known scholar and Jewish leader in Jerusalem. Their conversation is very famous and recorded for us in the Bible in John 3.
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Or copy and go to this link: FRIDAY 18 March 2022 “Condemned or Believe?” John 3:16-18 – Walking with Jesus (ddawj-365.com) Today's Scripture is John 3:16-18. Choose below to read or listen.
Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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When you hear the word "FAMILY" I wonder what comes to your mind? How many generations do you think of when you hear the word "FAMILY"? Is there a place or a home or a group of special people which you think of when you hear the word "FAMILY"? Sadly, as you probably know, that word "FAMILY" awakens great pain in the hearts of millions of people who do not have happy, healthy families now. Also, millions of adults around the world live with deep wounds as they remember the dysfunction of their childhood families. Now why would I begin today with a focus on the word 'FAMILY'?
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Or copy and go to this link: https://walkingwithjesus.ddawj-365.com/friday-11-february-2022-family-deuteronomy-67/ Today's Scripture is Deuteronomy 6:7. Choose below to read or listen.
Pastor Doug Anderson 262.441.8785 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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