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Walking on Water: When You Need to Reach
Workout of the Week: Walking on Water: When You Need to Reach Memory Verse: “Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. ‘You of little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’” Matthew 14:31 NIV Meditation Passage: Matthew 14:28-33 Just Do It: Reach For Him. Overwhelmed. Underwater without scuba gear. Desperate for firm footing.…
Read More Come When He Calls
Workout of the Week: Come When He Calls Memory Verse: “And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.” Romans 1:6 NIV Meditation Passage: Romans 1:1-7 Key Thought: Come when He calls. I’m waiting for my new puppy. Our nest is emptying, and I want something more protective than…
Read More Ask the Trainer
Workout for the Week: Ask the Trainer Memory Verse: “ Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:8-9 (NIV) Meditation Passage: Matthew…
Read More Baby Jesus: Worship Worthy
Workout for the Week: Worship Worthy Memory Verse: Matthew 2:10-11b Meditation Passage: Choose one from below. Key Thought: Jesus was worthy of worship at the first Christmas, and He is worthy still. Our Christmas carols ring with worship. Can you identify these carols? “O come let us adore Him.” “Born is the king of Israel.”…
Read More Are We There Yet?: Christmas Story Travel
Workout for the Week: Are We There Yet? Memory Verse: Luke 2:15 Meditation Passage: Luke 2:8-20 Key Thought: If God said, “Get up and go,” would you? Are we there yet? Family travel tests our patience. Snacks, videos, and “I Spy” help, but travel takes a toll. Imagine travel in Mary and Joseph’s day. Let’s…
Read More Track Your Christmas Package
Workout for the Week: Track Your Christmas Package Memory Verse: 2 Peter 1:21 (NIV) “For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” Meditation Passage: Matthew 2:1-11 Key Thought: Track God’s prophecy to fulfillment. The big brown truck rumbles…
Read More Outside the Christmas Box
Workout for the Week: Outside the Christmas Box Memory Verse: Tailor to the Christmas Bible character of your choice Meditation Passage: Tailor to the Christmas Bible character of your choice Key Thought: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust This week, I want you…
Read More Set the Story Straight, The Christmas Story
Workout for the Week: Set the Story Straight, The Christmas Story Memory Verse: Acts 17:11 (NIV) “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” Meditation Passage: John 1:1-18 Key Thought:…
Read More How to Train According to the Heart
Workout for the Week: How to Train According to the Heart Memory Verse: Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV) “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Meditation Passage: Romans 8:5-14 Key Thought: I must train…
Read More Shame on Me
Twelve backs were torn open by the lashing whip. Thirty-seven. Thirty-eight. Thirty-nine strokes. Some time had passed since Jesus’ ascension. The apostles had been arrested. They’d spent a night in jail, experienced an angelic rescue, and then appeared before the Jewish Council. And now, a flogging. You can find the story in Acts 5. Even…
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