Daily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans by Ed McMinn from Extra Point Publishers

01/21/2025

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12/25/2023

08/02/2023

Psalms 116:2 "Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!"

10/08/2021

Thank you, ❣️

09/30/2021

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03/17/2021

BIG MISTAKE

Read Mark 14:66-72.
Peter remembered Jesus had said to him, “Three times you will say you don’t know me.” Peter cried.

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03/17/2021

BIG MISTAKE

Read Mark 14:66-72.
Peter remembered Jesus had said to him, “Three times you will say you don’t know me.” Peter cried.

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03/16/2021

BLUEGRASS MIRACLE

Read Matthew 12:38-42.
“He answered, ‘A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign!’” (v. 39)

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03/15/2021

TEACHER'S PET

Read John 3:1-15.

“[Nicodemus] came to Jesus at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God’” (v. 2).

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03/08/2021

TOLD YOU SO

Read Matthew 24:15-31.
“See, I have told you ahead of time” (v. 25).

Jim DeLeone quite proudly and intentionally said to his head coach, “I told you I would do it.”

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03/03/2021

BELIEVE IT

Read John 3:16-21.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (v. 16 NKJV).

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03/03/2021

BELIEVE IT

Read John 3:16-21.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (v. 16 NKJV).

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03/02/2021

FAITHFUL LIVES

Read Hebrews 11:1-3, 6.
Without faith, you can’t please God.

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03/01/2021

DOWNRIGHT CRAZY

Read Luke 13:31-35.
“Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, ‘Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.’ He replied, ‘Go tell that fox . . . I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day’” (vv. 31-33).

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02/25/2021

SOMETHING NEW

Read Ephesians 4:17-24.
“You were taught . . . to put off your old self . . . and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (vv. 22, 24).

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02/24/2021

BRAGGING RIGHTS

Read Job 38.

“Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place?” (v. 12)

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02/23/2021

THE BIG TIME

Read Matthew 2:19-23.
“He went and lived in a town called Nazareth” (v. 23).

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