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MATINS DEVOTIONS
Matins Devotion: December 19, 2024
Isaiah 40:1-7 What does Isaiah mean when he says that Jerusalem has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins? Well, in the...

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Dec 19, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 18, 2024
Psalm 119:81-88 As you all know, I love a good literary image, a quick little phrase that says in a few words what lesser writers could...

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Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 17, 2024
Revelation 5 Once the scroll was sealed shut. The book of salvation, the story of mankind finding peace with God, the story of God...

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Dec 17, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 16, 2024
Isaiah 32 In describing the reign of the king of righteousness, Isaiah tells us that many things will change upon His arrival. Blindness...

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Dec 16, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 12, 2024
Psalm 106:1-5 As Christians, we should rejoice that God has given us the right to speak to Him, and we should do it often. We should pray...

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Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 11, 2024
Isaiah 28:14-19 Our reading from Isaiah this morning gives us not a historical conversation between Jerusalem and those who have crushed...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 10, 2024
Isaiah 26:20—27:13 “Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Dec 10, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 9, 2024
1 John 3 In our reading from St. John this morning, the apostle warns us about the danger of living in sin as a Christian, the danger of...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 3, 2024
1 Peter 5 Very often, when Christians face hardships or problems, we’ll utter phrases like, “it’s ok, God’s got this.” We’ll say those...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Dec 3, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: December 2, 2024
Isaiah 8:9-9:7 Early in my ministry, I often said that the season of Advent is not pre-Christmas, the idea being that the point of the...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Dec 2, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: November 27, 2024
Isaiah 1:1-28 I’ve often said that the love story of the Bible wouldn’t make a particularly good romantic movie. God’s love for His...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: November 26, 2024
Revelation 22 Come to the River of Life. Here, in these waters, come meet your Father. Meet the One who loved you from the foundation of...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Matins: November 25, 2024
Revelation 21:9-27 Julian the Apostate is a name given to a certain Roman emperor, the nephew of Constantine the Great, who turned from...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: November 22, 2024
Daniel 2:24–49 In a way, Nebuchadnezzar’s request of his dream-interpreters is a bit like if you went to a chiropractor and told him,...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: November 20, 2024
Matthew 28 There’s a common misconception that Jesus exited the tomb on Easter Sunday by walking out after the stone was rolled away. I...

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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: November 19, 2024
Matthew 27:57-66 When the chief priests ask Pilate to secure the tomb of Jesus, I have a sneaking suspicion they’re not really worried...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotion: November 18, 2024
Matthew 27:33-56 As our Lord hangs upon the cross, the crowd knows exactly what would convince them that Jesus really is the Christ, that...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Matins Devotions: November 11-15
MONDAY Matthew 25:31–46 Without thinking too deeply about our text from Matthew this morning, it can look like the sheep and the goats...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 19, 20247 min read
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Matins Devotions: November 4-8, 2024
MONDAY Matthew 22:23-46 As we see throughout the Gospels and certainly in our reading from Matthew this morning, the Pharisees are always...

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Nov 8, 20245 min read
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Matins Devotions: October 28-November 1, 2024
MONDAY John 15:12-21 Today is the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude, two apostles we know very little about. Although they do share names...

Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 8, 20247 min read
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