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Covenant Lutheran Devotional Archives |
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Matthew 26:26-29
By Pastor Kerry Nelson
A covenant is a relationship based on promises. We can’t live without such promises. Family life, community life, can’t happen without promises. So we teach our children the importance of honesty, fidelity, and integrity. We try, the best that we can, to model for them how life works when people are trustworthy, when promises are kept, so they |
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Ruth 1:15-18
By Pastor Kerry Nelson
Covenant making. Covenant breaking. The pain of rejection and abandonment. The deep joy and gratitude of steadfast faithfulness. The tensions in which we live.
Ruth and Naomi both had lost their husbands. Both were left helpless and destitute in a day when family provided the only social care network available. Both were women of |
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Judges 2:1-5
By Pastor Kerry Nelson
A covenant is a relationship based on promises. By its very nature, a covenant requires truthfulness, responsibility and fidelity. It isn’t enough to say that both parties have to trust each other. Trust includes being trustworthy; it is an action word on both sides.
The great mystery of the Bible is why the Creator would even bother. |
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Judges 2:1-5
By Pastor Kerry Nelson
A covenant is a relationship based on promises. By its very nature, a covenant requires truthfulness, responsibility and fidelity. It isn’t enough to say that both parties have to trust each other. Trust includes being trustworthy; it is an action word on both sides.
The great mystery of the Bible is why the Creator would even bother. |
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Mark 11:15-19
By Pastor Kerry Nelson
I’ll never forget the time my Grandma Nelson asked me on the phone when I was going to come back and be a pastor back home. I decided to just go for it and I answered, “Grandma, I don’t think I’ll ever do that.”
“But why?” she asked. So I told her, “Because here in Houston no one cares what kind of clothes I wear and no one pays |
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