Posted: September 4, 2026
Can good deeds be evil? This is the verdict: “Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” John 3:19. Jesus spoke to the Jews, who diligently tried to follow the entire Torah, the law of Moses. To ordinary people, the law teachers seemed perfect because
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Posted: August 27, 2026
You must be born from above! “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” John 3:3. The Greek word John used here means “born from above.” Jesus told Nicodemus that sinful human beings must be born from above to qualify for the kingdom of God.
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Posted: August 21, 2026
Clearing the temple “When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at the tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and
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Posted: August 14, 2026
The Light. “In him was life, and that life was the light of men.” John 1:4. When referring to Jesus’s human life, John used the Greek noun “Zoe” and made it the central subject of his account of the Good News. The Good News is Jesus Christ. Jesus came into this world to give fallen
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Posted: August 7, 2026
The Word “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.” John 1:1. John begins his Gospel with “In the beginning,” perhaps referencing Genesis 1:1. The “old humankind” began with the first man, Adam. The “new humankind” began with the
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Posted: July 31, 2026
The day of the Lord. “Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand – a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and blackness.” Joel 2:1, 2. Prophet
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Posted: July 24, 2026
One Lord will reign forever. “…Then the Lord my God will come, and the holy ones with him.” Zechariah 14:5, last part. The prophet Zechariah uses the devastating effects of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem as a backdrop to proclaim the day when God will destroy all evil. On that day, Zechariah says that the
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Posted: July 17, 2026
Jesus was sold for the price of a slave. “I told them, If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it. So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, Throw it to the potter – the handsome price at which they priced me! So
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Posted: July 10, 2026
The thief and the false prophet were banished. “I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll. And he said to me, ‘This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it
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Posted: July 4, 2026
Snatched from the fire. “Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. The LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched
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Posted: June 26, 2026
The dead in sin – revived. “After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.” Hosea 6:2. About 750 years before the Messiah, Prophet Hosea predicted what God would accomplish for rebellious humankind in the body of Jesus Christ on the cross
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Posted: June 20, 2026
The gate of righteousness. “Open to me the gates of the just king’s temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.” The opening of the gates of righteousness refers to Jesus Christ, the gate through which the righteous will enter. Psalm 118:19. What are the gates of righteousness? The ‘gates of
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Posted: June 13, 2026
God abandoned the Savior of the world. “Scorn has broken my heart and left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.” Psalm 69:20, 21. Long before the Messiah suffered on the cross at Golgotha, David prophesied what the Savior of the world would endure. On the
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