Category Archives: Life Together

Setting Aside the Sabbath

Posted on November 22, 2020 by wamplerp

On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw … Continue reading →

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Fully Awake (Woke)

Posted on November 18, 2020 by wamplerp

About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as … Continue reading →

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Transactional or Transformational?

Posted on December 23, 2019 by wamplerp

After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was … Continue reading →

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Healing and Feeding

Posted on January 5, 2019 by wamplerp

Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them … Continue reading →

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Swept Away Part II

Posted on July 10, 2018 by wamplerp

“I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord . “I will sweep away both man and beast; I will sweep away the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea— and the … Continue reading →

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Showers on the Grass

Posted on April 3, 2018 by wamplerp

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.” Therefore Israel will be … Continue reading →

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Justice into Poison

Posted on March 22, 2018 by wamplerp

For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits. Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned … Continue reading →

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Morning Mist

Posted on March 6, 2018 by wamplerp

Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!” Therefore they will … Continue reading →

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Inheritance

Posted on December 21, 2017 by wamplerp

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These are the boundaries of the land that you will divide among the twelve tribes of Israel as their inheritance, with two portions for Joseph. You are to divide it equally among them. … Continue reading →

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This is why I weep

Posted on July 10, 2016 by wamplerp

This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”   Zion stretches out her hands, but there … Continue reading →

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