esus Lives! The Victory’s Won! That’s pretty much the Bible in a nutshell, isn’t it? Whether you’re reading from Genesis 3, “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel.”
https://www.eastsidelutheran.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cross-on-bible-green.jpg11551732Amanda Petersenhttps://www.eastsidelutheran.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/eastside_lutheran_logo-300x117.jpgAmanda Petersen2021-04-11 08:00:002021-04-08 13:36:22Faith Overcomes the World
Have you ever felt trapped--like there was no way out? I think many of the events of the past year have lent themselves to feeling trapped. Trapped in our homes, trapped behind our masks, trapped in our own minds.
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What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? …I’m guessing that most of you are thinking about the food, right? But what’s the best meal you’ve ever had if the taste of the food isn’t the main factor?
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It was all happening, just as God had promised. The curse that David had brought upon himself by despising the word of the LORD, by striking down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, by taking Uriah’s wife Bathsheba as his own; that curse was now coming to fruition.
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Daniel had to be counting his blessings. After being carried away from his homeland as a teenager, he had survived two kings and their visions and dreams. Now the third king, Darius the Mede, who had no loyalty or familiarity with Daniel had made him one of three supervisors over the whole kingdom.
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We may not deal with the physical struggles of a desert, but we know what it means to follow our own ways only to find ourselves wandering and lost.
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So far in our journey on the Road to Redemption, we’ve seen the picture of Jesus in the passover lamb. We’ve seen him battle against the temptations of Satan and fulfill the promise God made in the Garden of Eden.
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Have you ever heard the song “Hurt” by Johnny Cash? It was actually first written by a man named Trent Reznor of the band “Nine Inch Nails” in 1994. Johnny Cash covered it in 2002 and it became a hit. At the time, he was 71 and his health was rapidly declining.
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So when the accusations come, when self-pity tempts, when you want to complain or cry out, remember that your Savior was silent for you. First look up to Christ and then to the people around you.
https://www.eastsidelutheran.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cross-on-bible-green.jpg11551732Amanda Petersenhttps://www.eastsidelutheran.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/eastside_lutheran_logo-300x117.jpgAmanda Petersen2021-03-10 15:30:002021-03-15 10:23:32From Silence to Silence