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Without Walls Devotional: Week 3 Thursday
Scripture Passage(s): 1 Corinthians 15:1-19 Romans 1:1-7 Acts 2:22-36 Over and over again, the Bible tells us that the truthfulness of Christianity is contingent upon whether it is historically and objectively true. The Bible is a record of history that shows us how God has interacted within history. For the Apostle Paul, the question that [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 3 Wednesday
Scripture Passage(s): Romans 15:4 2 Timothy 3:16-17 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 Deuteronomy 6 Deuteronomy 8:1-3 Deuteronomy 29:29 The Bible does not have all of the answers. Yes, the words of the Bible are the very words of God, but the Bible does not have all of the answers. The other day I needed to change the [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 3 Tuesday
Scripture Passage(s): Luke 24:13-29 John 15:16 John 16:12-15 Romans 16:25-27 1 Peter 1:10-12 “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.” (2 Corinthians 1:20) Yesterday’s devotion dealt with what it means for the Bible to [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 3 Monday
Scripture Passage(s): Proverbs 30:5-6 2 Peter 1:16-21 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Hebrews 4:11-13 Today’s devotion discusses what it means for the Bible to be God’s Word. You might have heard it said that the Bible is “divinely inspired.” But what does it mean for the Bible to be divinely inspired? Sometimes people feel inspired to write [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 2 Saturday
Scripture Passage(s): Romans 6 1st John 3 1st John 5:1-5 Fish swim. Dogs bark. Crickets chirp. Birds fly (well, most of them do). People who truly know God live as though they know God. They love what God loves. They hate what God hates. They continue to grow in their faith. Spend some time reflecting [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 2 Friday
Scripture Passage(s): Ephesians 1:1-14 Galatians 3:10-4:7 Romans 8:12-17 God’s purpose in creating all that exists is centered around displaying “the glory of his grace” (Ephesians 1:6 NASB). God does not delight in evil or ever do evil. But while God did not cause Adam to fall away from Him, in a very real sense, in [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 2 Thursday
Scripture Passage(s): 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:16 Romans 8:1-11 “From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has [...]
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W/out Wall Life Group Wk 2
For this series, The River will be having Church Wide Life Group. Listen to week 2 of Life Group of “Without Walls: Who I am in Christ”. Join us Wednesday night at The River Arcadia Campus at 6 pm for Dinner and 6:30 for our gathering.
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 2 Wednesday
Scripture Passage(s): Romans 5:1-11 Isaiah 52-53 1 John 4:9-10 Today’s devotion is about followers of Christ having peace with God. We will go over some brief points that these passages tell us about. The peace that we have with God is an objective reality. The peace we, as believers, have with God is no different [...]
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Without Walls Devotional: Week 2 Tuesday
Scripture Passage(s): Ephesians 2:1-10 Acts 16:11-14 John 11:1-44 Today’s devotion is about regeneration. Scripture calls regeneration by a number of names. Regeneration is also called the new birth, being born again, born from above, and many other names as well. What people often call being born again is not at all what Scripture tells us [...]
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