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The Great Confession

Who do you say I am? It's the most important question you will ever answer: who is Jesus Christ? If you need a hint about the answer, stay tuned.

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Is it possible to be too familiar with Jesus? Matthew tells about an incident where Jesus went home again, only to find that his old friends and neighbors were unimpressed with him. In their case, familiarity bred contempt. Don't let that happen to you.

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What shows us how greatly we are loved by God?

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What does it mean for our daily living that we have died and been raised with Christ?

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What cure can there be for our agonizing inner conflict?

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What does the Holy Spirit bring about in the depths of our lives?

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What wonderful certainties can flood our hearts with joy?

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How do I respond to the gospel message? Jesus' told a story about the sower, the seed and the different kinds of soil. Its meaning seems clear. Isn't it all about the different ways people respond to the gospel? Or is it also about how I respond?

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You know why Jesus told so many stories, don't you? It was to engage and entertain his audience (unlike so many boring sermons); it was to make his teaching clear and memorable (unlike so many obscure lectures). Or was it?

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Where does evil come from? The problem of evil is age-old, and one of the biggest struggles for faith. Why is so much wrong in God's good world? What should we do about it? Jesus answers both those questions by means of a parable - but his answers may provoke more questions for you.

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Do you know the saying, "Finders keepers, losers weepers"? When it comes to your most important possession, your own life, Jesus turns it on its head.

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Today all over the globe Christians by the hundreds of millions are gathering for worship and greeting one another with the words, "Christ is risen!" This is our witness to the world.

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The Song that the aged Simeon sang as he held baby Jesus in his arms has served as a parting blessing for believers of all ages ever since.

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The writer to the Hebrews was especially interested in the Old Testament ordinances regulating the priesthood. He saw in the 40th Psalm an important clue to the priestly work that Jesus would come to accomplish.

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Psalm 22 is the most haunting of all the references to Christ in the whole Old Testament, for its haunting opening words were the ones he spoke as he - the Savior of the world - died on the cross.

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Someone has said that evil and death can never win in the end, because they lost at the only time they could have really won - at the cross. But life and righteousness won when Christ "arose as victor from the dark domain."

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In what surely must be a record, the first verse of Psalm 110 is quoted or referred to 17 times in the New Testament. What is it that made this verse the apostles' favorite text?

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Psalm 110 became the New Testament writers' favorite chapter of the Bible because it speaks of two things: Christ's exalted place at God's right hand, and his eternal high priesthood, in the mysterious "order of Melchizedek."

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What does the 45th Psalm, an Old Testament poem originally written to celebrate the marriage of one of Israel's kings, have to do with Jesus Christ? The answer, as the apostle Paul might have put it, is "much, in every way"!

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This simple message of the 23rd Psalm expresses a profound truth in beautiful imagery. But the New Testament tells us even more: the Lord who is our shepherd is none other than Jesus.

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