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The Risen One’s Ambassadors
Read: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 An ambassador is an individual who represents his or her own country as a resident in another. Ambassadorship is the highest office a person can have outside his or her own country, making an ambassador the highest ranking official representing a president, a prime minister, or a sovereign in another nation.…
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Summer of Great Commission
Read: Philippians 1:3-11 Here in Canada we know the season of longer days and warmer weather is at hand the moment we see beautiful perennial tulips spring up from the ground. Late spring to early autumn is usually a time of getting out more for outdoor activities such as camping, mountain biking, picnics at the…
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The Purpose of it All
Welcome to the last segment of our meditations on the suffering, death, and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! In this last segment of our lenten devotionals we focus on the very purpose of Christ’s coming here on earth to suffer and die. Why did our Lord embrace suffering and humiliation? Why did…
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Groaning for the Future Glory
Read: Romans 8:18-25 We are going to look for another clear manifestation of possessing the victory of Christ’s resurrection. As we already know, Christ’s resurrection opened up the way to glorification, with Himself being the firstfruit of glory through the Father’s resurrection of Him after He suffered and died (Philippians 2:8-11). Through Him, we who…
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Happy Resurrection Sunday!
Read: Philippians 1:15-22 Looking back at the recently concluded Triple Treat Events, how we inaugurated the Edmonton House of Worship, remembering the five newly minted ministers in the District of Canada, and reminiscing the many happenings during Conference, I cannot help but be in complete awe of the sheer amount of faith, love, and dedication…
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Locum Tenens
Read: Romans 8:9-11 In our service to God, we have one who empowers us, He is no other than the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:8 states that the Holy Spirit is our power-giver, hence, our Enabler. Without the power of the Holy Spirit, we won’t be able to serve God at all. We simply do not…
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Life March
Read: 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 In times of great conflicts such as wars, prisoners of wars are taken by the opposing side, putting them in precarious, vulnerable situation. There have been instances when prisoners of wars met their fate in the hands of their captors. One of the ways prisoners of war have been killed is…
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Victory in Jesus!
Read: Acts 2:22-29 Welcome to our fourth week of meditation. We are now on the theme of glorification. Remember that we have this guiding outline in our lenten monthlong meditation: Week 1: Suffering Week 2: Death Week 3: Resurrection Week 4: Glorification Week 5: Mission By glorification we mean the very victory our Lord Jesus…
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The Resurrection: Our Reward Guarantor
Read: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 The entire chapter fifteen of the first letter to the Corinthians is Apostle Paul’s argument for the reality of resurrection, extensively treating the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as recorded in the gospels, and the promised resurrection of the believers. At the end of the chapter, the apostle concludes with…
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Rendezvous With the Resurrected
Read: Philippians 3:7-11 Had the risen Lord Jesus not apprehend Saul, nothing would have stopped him in his deathly tracts. He was sincere but sincerely wrong. So convinced was he of his beliefs that he was willing to kill for it. But his rendezvous with the Risen on the road to Damascus confronted, converted, and…
