Tag: Mark Paustian
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Easter Sunday Devotion: He Lives
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” (Luke 24:5,6) What would Good Friday be without Easter? What if Jesus had died and stayed dead? For the disciples, life of a sort would have gone on. What choice would they have? Best not think too much about Judas.…
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Do You Worship on Autopilot?
I sometimes struggle with worshiping on autopilot. That struggle can happen for any number of reasons, but one that I don’t often think about is familiarity. I’ve been in and around church and worship services since before I could walk. Many parts of the worship service are so familiar and ingrained in me that I…
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Good Friday
How does Good Friday affect you? What do you associate with this day? As you ponder these questions, read this powerful devotion from Pastor Mark Paustian’s “Our Worth to Him: Devotions for Christian Worship.”
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Advent
[From Our Worth to Him: Devotions for Christian Worship by Mark Paustian. All rights reserved.] “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). I, a poor John the Baptist, made my way through a tangle of wheelchairs in a run-down nursing home. I was there to mark an…
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The Pastor
[From Our Worth to Him: Devotions for Christian Worship by Mark Paustian. All rights reserved.] “Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” – Acts 20:28 Martin Luther commented that people would surely “run their feet bloody” if they thought there was a place where they might go and…