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TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 27:27-44 TO CHEW ON: "Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.” (Acts 27:34) Have you ever been seriously scared or nervous? Perhaps it was the time your team had to play the championship game, or you had t...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ezra 9:5-15 TO CHEW ON: "Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God and prayed: 'I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are...

TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read Genesis 8:15-22 Noah and his family leave the ark - Artist unknown TO CHEW ON: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." (Genesis 8:22) The flood was over. At last the animals and people could leave ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ephesians 3:14-21TO CHEW ON: "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." Ephesians 3:17b,18 The highest mountain on earth is 29,0781 feet above sea leve...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Genesis 46:28-34 TO CHEW ON: "Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father, and wept for a long time." Genesis 46:29 Have you ever been separated from people you love? Perha...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Peter 3:3-13 TO CHEW ON: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2 Peter 3:8 How long is it from one Christmas to the next? From this summer holiday to next summer holiday? From your 10th...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 28:1-10 TO CHEW ON: "His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured." (Acts 28:8,9) Paul had just c...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Esther 2:19-22 TO CHEW ON: "But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai." Esther 2:22 “Xerxes is a tyrant. He’s gone too far!” "We should kill him . . .” Mordecai sat motionless as he strained to hear th...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Jeremiah 38:1-6 TO CHEW ON: "This is what the Lord says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes out to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives: they will live.’" Jeremiah 38: 2 None of us likes to bring unwelcome ne...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Micah 5:1-5 TO CHEW ON: "But you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be a ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times." Micah 5:2 Royally dressed strangers on camels were asking to se...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Luke 15: 1-7 TO CHEW ON: "...Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep." Luke 15:6 When you lose a favorite toy, do you: - say, “Oh well, I still have lots of other toys,” then find something else to play with?- look for that toy for a while, then give up and play with something e...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: John 3:1-8 TO CHEW ON: “Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again .' " - John 3:3 Nicodemus was no dummy. He had gone to school for many years to become a Pharisee. He was in government as a member of the ruling council, the ...