With wind and fire

Reading: Acts 2:1-13 Text: Acts 2:1-4 With wind and fire   Acts 2:1-13 New American Standard Bible (NASB) The Day of Pentecost 2 When the day of Pentecost [a]had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing...
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What is good?

Reading: Genesis 6; HCLD 33/91 Text: Hebrews 11:7 What is good?   Genesis 6 New American Standard Bible (NASB) The Corruption of Mankind 6 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that...
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God’s way; sometimes mysterious but always best

Reading: John 14:15-21 Text: Exodus 13:17-22 God’s way; sometimes mysterious but always best John 14:15-21 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. Role of the Spirit 16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another [a]Helper,...
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Conversion: off with the old and on with the new.

Reading: Romans 6:1-14 HCLD 33 Text: Ephesians 4: 20-24 Conversion: off with the old and on with the new.   Ephesians 4:20-24 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 20 But you did not learn [a]Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just...
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The Rite of Redemption

Reading: 1 Peter 1:13-21 Text: Exodus 13:1&2, 11- 16 The Rite of Redemption 1 Peter 1:13-21 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 13 Therefore, [a]prepare your minds for action, [b]keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace [c]to be brought to you at the...
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That our neighbors may be won for Christ.

Reading: HCLD 32 Text: Deuteronomy 4:1-9 That our neighbors may be won for Christ. Deuteronomy 4:1-9 New American Standard Bible (NASB) Israel Urged to Obey God’s Law 4 “Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may...
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Take your cattle and go!

Text: Exodus 12:29-51 Take your cattle and go!   Exodus 12:29-51 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 29 Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the...
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Why must we do good?

Reading: HCLD 32 Text: Romans 6:15-7:6 Why must we do good?   Romans 6:15-7:6 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves...
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Unleavened Bread

Rev Hans Vaatstra Reading: Hebrews 10:1-18 Text: Exodus 12:14-28 Unleavened Bread   Hebrews 10:1-18 New American Standard Bible (NASB) One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient 10 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very [a]form of...
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For well-being, purity and honor.

Reading: Joshua 7; HCLD 31/85 Text: Joshua 7 For well-being, purity and honor. Joshua 7 New American Standard Bible (NASB) Israel Is Defeated at Ai 7 But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfully in regard to the things under the ban, for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,...
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