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"Choosing To Love" By Zach Wood 1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us. The last devotional I shared with you talked about God's crazy love for us through His son Jesus Christ. I still cannot help but think about how God loves us so much, yet, many choose not to love Him back. Am I...

"This Is Crazy Love" By Zach Wood 1 John 4:9-10 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Usually...

"We Must Love With Our Actions" By Zach Wood 1 John 3:16-18 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love...

"I Wanna Be In The Light" By Zach Wood 1 John 2:3-6 We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him...

"Speak Wisely" By Zach Wood 1 Peter 3:15-16 But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak...

"Praise Him For Living Hope" By Zach Wood 1 Peter 1:3-5 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or...

"Strive To Be Holy" By Zach Wood 1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, do not comform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." I have been stuck on the this...

"Submit And Proceed" By Zach Wood James 4:7-8 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. We have been studying through the book of...

"Taming The Monster" By Zach Wood James 3:9-10 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. I try. I fail. I try. I succeed. Do those...

"Avoiding Favoritism" By Zach Wood James 2:1My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism. We are studying the book of James in our small group bible study each week. One of the things I really admire about James is that he is direct, blunt and to the...

"Keeping The Rein" By Zach Wood James 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Every morning I arise, I pray that God will give me strength and direction to not react in any ways that would...

"Trust & Obey" By Zach Wood John 14:15 If you love me, you will obey what I command. I remember working at a summer youth camp back in college and there was a skit performed that really stunned me. Not only did it stun me, but it was a scene that I have never forgotten about. A man is...

"Who Dwells In Your Heart?"By Zach WoodPsalm 27:4One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. Son of God, Shaper of the starsYou aloneThe dweller of my...

"Mysterious Love" By Zach Wood 1 John 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. A few weeks ago, we went camping with our youth group in...

"Where Is Our Faith?'By Zach WoodMark 4:39-40He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" What amazes me about the disciples is how they...

"Which Life Do We Choose?" By Zach WoodRomans 8:5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The alarm clock goes off, we get out of bed, we...

"Focus Fixation"By Zach WoodHebrews 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Last Sunday morning, my wife and I attended an outdoor community...

"Living Like We Believe It"By Zach WoodRomans 8:31-32What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son,but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? I recall so many times...

"Don't Be Fed By Temptation"By Zach WoodGalatians 5:16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. Out of all the times I used to visit zoos when I was a kid, I very well remember signs that read "Please Do Not Feed The Animals" on many of the cages...

"How Easy To Look Past"By Zach WoodLuke 7:39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is--that she is a sinner." How nice it is to have some things in life that are easy to do...