Tag Archives: Jesus

New Message Series Coming Up Next Week

On Sunday, February 12, we are starting a new Message Series entitled, “The Superiority of Christ:  The Book of Colossians.”  As we come to see the superiority of Christ over every power, authority, idea, philosophy, and religion, it fills us more »

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North Pole

There’s an actual town called “North Pole  in Alaska.  And every year countless letters come to North Pole at this time of the year, all addressed to the Big Man in the Red Suit.  In fact, a few years ago more »

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No Ordinary King

Brothers and sisters, God is Great, and His power is at work in and through the people of CTR in mighty ways!  I just wanted to share an example of that with you with a portion of a letter Greg more »

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Devotion – Up Here

Remember a few years ago when the New York transit workers walked off the job in a strike, shutting down the entire subway and bus system which provides 7 million daily rides?  As you can imagine, it wreaked havoc on more »

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Devotion: Toward the Cross

Another one of my other favorite scenes in the movie “the Passion of the Christ” is when the Roman Soldiers throw Jesus’ cross down on the ground so that they can nail him to it.  Jesus is lying on the more »

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Devotion – Jesus is Better

A thin, elderly lady in China was thrown into prison for her Christian faith.  Every morning all the women in the prison were forced to stand outside their cells and say together, “Communism is good.”  Every morning this little lady more »

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Devotion: Desired of All Nations

In a little, rather obscure book of the Old Testament called Haggai, we hear this: “I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.” more »

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Devotion: Dragged Around

Threatened with a ticket, a Russian motorist recently trapped a traffic policeman’s hand in his car window then drove off with the officer attached.  I can’t even imagine what it was like to be that policeman.  Can you imagine trying more »

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Devotion: Missing from the Creed

In our worship Gatherings, we often say the Apostles’ Creed together.  It wasn’t written by the apostles, but by other church leaders a few hundred years after the apostles were gone to summarize the basic truths of the Bible.  It’s more »

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Devotion: Cloudy Windows

I once watched a guy cleaning a store window while I was studying at Starbuck’s.  It was interesting because I thought that the window was already clean before he started.  But once he finished spreading the cleaner and scraping it more »

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