Category: hope
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Don’t give up on anyone
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) It’s time for this one again. You don’t want to ever forget this! My wife, Marti, loves to tell the story of a dramatic rescue in which she played a significant role when she was a flight attendant. On a routine done-it-a-hundred-times flight from Chicago…
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Choose Joy!
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10) Last night’s BlogTalkRadio interview with Doug Stevens is required listening for our Catch community, and everyone who wants to follow Jesus. It’s all about good news.
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Bearing the disgrace
Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore. Hebrews 13:13 Here is just a part of the disgrace Jesus bore outside the camp: He was crucified as a common criminal. He was mocked, flogged and spit upon by the Roman soldiers. He had no place to be buried until His…
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World on fire
In several Catches this week we are recalling to everyone some of the characteristics of the Jesus Movement that fostered a revival 50 years ago, in seeking to create, not another movement, but an environment conducive to God’s direct involvement with the current body of Christ however He might choose to work. We’ve been saying…
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Are we caught in consumer Christianity?
How can I sing a new song of deliverance to those who have no hope, if, at the same time, I insist on remaining comfortable among those who do?
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Why we have hope
At a time when you would think no one would be very hopeful about the future, it turns out that a high percentage of 18-29 year-olds in America are. Not only that, they are involved in politics more than have been in the last 20 years. Maybe that’s why they’re hopeful — they feel like…