Sunday, August 16, 2026
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Service: the proportion of members engaged in a ministry according to their gifts, rather than a handful of people carrying everything.
Measuring Church Health: Beyond the Numbers
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The Trinity is not three gods, certainly not. It is first of all one God, the one God, creator and eternal.
How Does God Make Himself Known? A Conversation with Henri Blocher
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Welcoming a new volunteer happens in three stages: before the first service, on the first day, and during the follow-up weeks.
How to Welcome a New Volunteer
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A pure heart isn't a perfect heart; it's a transparent one . Like David, you can fall, but you confess, you don't hide your faults.
Pure in Heart, Seeing God: The Summit of the Beatitudes
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Signs that God is at work in your life: peace, humility, actions that aren't double, a selfless desire for the Kingdom's good, an ever-growing hunger for holiness.
Surface Christian or Heart Christian? (Matthew 5:20)
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This period culminates with The War (1964-1966, Kunsthaus Zürich): the very dark cross is relegated to the upper right, like an echo of a God who suffers with his people.
Luke 9:28-36 (the transfiguration and "his exodus")
Chagall and the Man of Sorrows
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God multiplies what he has promised. Counting his blessings is not optional, it is the first act of a believer who wants to move forward.
What God Multiplies, You Can't Carry Alone
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Two dynamics stand opposed: religion and relationship. Religion is man searching for God by his own means. The Bible is God coming down to search for lost man.
Lost Sheep, Lost Coin: God Is Searching for You
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Compassionate. The miracle is an act of compassion. A man immobilized for thirty-eight years rises, walks, and takes his life back. God doesn't do doctrine without also doing concrete good.
Bethesda: When Jesus Meets You in Your Helplessness
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"If you're going through trials, if you're going through the storm, what do you have? Jesus asleep in your boat: wake him up."
Warned: Wake Up, Deception Moves in Silence
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God will wipe away every tear; death will be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor pain.
Revelation 21:5: God Makes All Things New
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This gesture pictures purification: it foreshadows the blood he will shed on the cross to make us completely clean.
John 17:26: "That the love with which you loved me may be in them"
Christ's Love: The Ultimate Remedy (John 13-17)
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At the cross, he did not defeat the devil for himself. He had already defeated him and cast him down to the earth. The cross is for you. It is for me. It is so that we could have the victory over Satan.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 · The rapture of the Church
The Lamb, the Bridegroom, the King: The Three Comings of Jesus
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Your first ministry as a man is your family. Before the church, before work, before projects.
Psalm 68:5 · father of the fatherless
Abba Our Father: Three Faces of Fatherhood
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Trust God for tomorrow. He knows your calendar. He provides ahead of the trials he sees coming.
3 Kinds of Manna: From Exodus to Revelation
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The New Testament describes the church as one body with different members (Romans 12:4-5; 1 Corinthians 12:12).
20 Verses on the Unity of the Church
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The storm comes for everyone; only the house built on the rock stays standing.
Three foundations for a life that does not collapse
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"Do this in remembrance of me": your faith grows when you remember.
Remember: three memories that build your faith
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"It is finished" is not an ending: it is the start of what Jesus is still doing today.
Remember: Jesus is alive and still at work
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Hidden in your winepress, God already calls you mighty warrior.
Coming out of the winepress: God sees you, mighty warrior
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Faithful even in Pergamum, where it is hard: God sees where you hold on.
What is the Pergamum of your life?
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Give God the firstfruits, not the leftovers: that is where the miracle begins.
Put God first: the miracle of the firstfruits
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In Christ you are not a corrected version: you are a new creation.
The identikit of the new creature in Christ
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Hours before the cross, Jesus chooses a table: his heart beats for communion.
The heart of Jesus at the table, before the cross
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To forgive is to erase a debt, starting with the one crushing you.
The power of forgiveness: erase the debt you carry
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The same Spirit of Pentecost is still blowing: he revives what you thought was dead.
The Spirit of God Revives What You Thought Was Dead
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The crowd wanted a political liberator; Jesus came to free hearts. Which king are you cheering?
Hosanna! But Which King Are You Cheering For?
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God sees the tears no one else sees: do not give up, the harvest is coming.
Mother's Day: The God Who Sees Your Tears
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Before you were formed in the womb, God already knew you, and appointed you.
Edify People, Build the Church, Shape the City
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You are no longer a stranger: in God's house, you are home.
God Builds a House and Places You in It
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God does not build buildings: he builds people, and through them, a city.
Building Together: Edify People, Build the Church, Shape the City
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In God's wall no stone is decorative: every stone counts, including you.
Every Stone Matters: Take Your Place in the Wall
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God is building a house, and there is a place in it with your name on it.
Building Together: Your Place in God's House
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Enlarge the place of your tent: God is preparing an expansion you cannot see yet.
Babylon or the Tent: Leave the Comfort That Holds You Back
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God's waiting room is not abandonment: stay anchored, your miracle is ripening.
Anchored in Hope When Your Miracle Is Delayed
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Who is really leading your life? Walking by the Spirit means moving at God's pace.
A Spirit-Led Life: Walking at God's Pace
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The enemy sows at night what looks like wheat: guard your eyes before tearing everything up.
The Weeds the Enemy Sows in Your Perception
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You did not receive a spirit of slavery: you can call God Abba, Father.
Abba, Our Father: Three Faces of Fatherhood
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The question is not whether you worship but who you worship: your praise invites Jesus into your storm.
Your Praise Brings Jesus Into Your Boat
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True authority isn't proven by what it gains for itself, but by what it gives to others.
He Had It All, and He Picked Up a Basin
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Hope is not a feeling: it is a choice you make again every morning.
Choosing Hope When Everything Pushes You to Give Up
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In the middle of the cheers, Jesus sees what no one sees, and he weeps out of love.
Jesus Wept While They Praised Him
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Jesus knew every heart and loved to the end: disappointment never stopped his love.
Walking Through Disappointment in the School of Jesus
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Bring your pain back into God's presence: it will not have the last word.
Pain Will Not Have the Last Word
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"Follow your heart" is bad advice when the Bible says the human heart is deceitful.
My Faith, Down to My Gut
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The firstfruits don't belong to you, they belong to the Lord.
Put God First
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A single faithful life can draw God's blessing over an entire household, a workplace, a group.
A Faith That Breaks Through the Roof and Opens a Way
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Wishes build nothing: it's action carried by God that transforms a family.
A Family Isn't Wished For, It's Built
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Between God's promise and its fulfillment, there is almost always a long road, it's not a delay, it's preparation.
Be Patient, God's Plan Takes Time
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God distributes the rebuilding: in Nehemiah 3, each family rebuilds the section of the wall in front of their own house.
Which Portion of the Wall Is in Your Hands?
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Protecting is not controlling: true love covers without smothering.
Protecting Without Smothering
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God's impossibilities don't diminish his all-powerfulness; they reveal his perfection.
What God Cannot Accept
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Learn to tell the channel from the Source: your paycheck is a pipe, God is the reservoir.
The One Who Truly Feeds You
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God isn't depriving you: he's holding back so he can give at the right time, through the right channel.
God Is Holding Something Back for You
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The golden calf was made with gold that God himself had given the people.
The Idol Made With God's Own Blessing
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A mistake must not steal from you what is eternal: God, for his part, has not changed.
Don't Let a Mistake Steal the Eternal
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Intimidation is a strategy designed to neutralize your gifts, your calling, and your destiny.
Standing Firm Against Intimidation
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True authority isn't measured by what it gains for itself, but by what it brings to others.
He Had It All, and He Picked Up a Basin
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Just because you can't see anything doesn't mean nothing is happening: God is working in the unseen.
Pentecost 2026: What You Sow Matters
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Happiness depends on what happens to you. Joy depends on who you are in Christ.
Biblical Joy Isn't What You Think
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He already knows how your story ends, because he stands outside the time he created.
God Is Working for You in Secret
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In the Bible, a name is never insignificant: it reflects character, identity, destiny.
God Sees Who You're Becoming
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Repentancegives birth to responsibility. Only those who own their choices can taste true freedom.
Freedom at the Heart of Families
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Loving without being naive is possible: Jesus did it throughout his ministry, and that's what let him love to the very end.
When Disappointment Strikes, What Do You Do?
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Sincere love isn't enough on its own, it needs to be guided by God's wisdom.
The Idol Made With God's Own Blessing