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“하나님이……그를……높이사.” 본문 [사도행전 5:31] 한때 십자가에 못박혀 돌아가시고 장사지낸 바 되었던 우리 주 예수님이 지금은 영광의 보좌에 앉아 계십니다. 주님은 물론 천국에서 가장 높은 자리에 앉아 계십니다. 이 점에 대해서는 논란의 여지가 있을 수 없습니다. 그리스도..

A WORLD OF PROVISION 공급해주는 세계 [ Psalms 104:10 - 104:26 ] - hymn 66 There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number. [ PSALM 104:25 ] It’s 2 a.m. when Nadia, a farmer of sea cucumbers, walks into a roped-off pen in the ocean shallows near her Madagascar village to harvest her “crop.” The early hour doesn’t bother her. “Life was ..

FRIENDS AGAIN 다시 친구 되어 [ Romans 5:6 - 5:11 ] - hymn 257 How much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! [ ROMANS 5:10 ] A mother and her young daughter are sitting in church one day. During the service, opportunity is given for people to publicly receive God’s forgiveness. Every time someone walks forward to do so, the little girl begin..

THE SINGING REVOLUTION 노래 혁명 [ Psalms 42:1 - 42:5 ] - hymn 23 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. [ PSALM 42:5 ] What does it take to ignite a revolution? Guns? Bombs? Guerrilla warfare? In late-1980s Estonia, it took songs. After the people had lived under the burden of Sovi..

THE FORECASTER’S MISTAKE 일기예보관의 실수 [ Jeremiah 23:16 - 23:22 ] - hymn 540 Let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. [ JEREMIAH 23:28 ] At noon on September 21, 1938, a young meteorologist warned the U.S. Weather Bureau of two fronts forcing a hurricane northward toward New England. But the chief of forecasting scoffed at Charles Pierce’s prediction. S..

BEING CARED FOR 보살핌을 받음 [ Psalms 46 ] - hymn 543 The Lord Almighty is with us. [ PSALM 46:11 ] Debbie, the owner of a housecleaning service, was always searching for more clients to build up her business. On one call she talked with a woman whose response was, “I won’t be able to afford that now; I’m undergoing cancer treatment.” Right then Debbie decided t..

“너희가 이른 곳은……아벨의 피보다 더 낫게 말하는 뿌린 피니라.” 본문 [히브리서 12:24] 독자 여러분, 여러분은 본문에서 말하고 있는 이 뿌린 피에 이르렀습니까? 여기서 중요한 것은 여러분이 교리적으로 그것을 아느냐, 의식을 준수했느냐, 어떤 체험을 했느냐 하는 것이 아니라 여..

ABLE TO HELP 도울 수 있는 힘 [ Hebrews 2:14 - 2:18 ] - hymn 377 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. [ HEBREWS 2:18 ] Joe’s eight-week “break” from his job as a crisis care worker at a New York City church was not a vacation. In his words, it was “to live again among the homeless, to become one of them, ..

HUNGRY FOR GOD 하나님을 향한 갈망 [ Jeremiah 15:15 - 15:21 ] - hymn 200 When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight. [ JEREMIAH 15:16 ] A new believer in Jesus was desperate to read the Bible. However, he’d lost his eyesight and both hands in an explosion. When he heard about a woman who read Braille with her lips, he tried to do the s..

FROM PITY TO PRAISE 연민에서 찬양으로 [ 2 Timothy 4:9 - 4:18 ] - hymn 91 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength. [ 2 TIMOTHY 4:17 ] At a coat drive for children, excited kids searched gratefully for their favorite colors and proper sizes. They also gained self-esteem, an organizer said, with new coats boosting their acceptance by peers and school attendance..