Tag Archives: Jesus

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Posted on May 21, 2025 by mitchteemley

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” ~Matthew 5:9 ≅

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I’m Building My House on a Rock

Posted on May 3, 2025 by mitchteemley

I’m having a major heart procedure, a pvc ablation, two weeks from now.* It’s a search-and-destroy mission to locate cells that are producing extra heartbeats (tachycardia). In fact, I have more heartbeats than anyone else my cardiologist has ever encountered. … Continue reading →

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He Is Not Here…

Posted on April 20, 2025 by mitchteemley

He is risen! Wishing you a blessed Easter, dear friends. Today, tomorrow, and forever! -AΩ~

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The Instrument That Changed the World

Posted on April 19, 2025 by mitchteemley

The cross is both a crude instrument of torture and a precise surgical device. As the former, it demonstrates God’s unrelenting love for us. And as the latter, it cuts open our hearts and implants his life-giving presence in us. … Continue reading →

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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

Posted on April 14, 2025 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week “Jesus died to save people from a blood-thirsty God!” That, says my friend Mac, an influential atheist “evangelist,” is the message of Christianity. “Then, in our place,” he goes on, “God sadistically tortured his own Son … Continue reading →

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Palm Sunday, A Failed Celebration

Posted on April 13, 2025 by mitchteemley

“Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD.” ~Psalm 118:26 On Palm Sunday people celebrated who they wanted Jesus to be. The following week they tried to silence forever who He was. Thank God they failed. ~AΩ~

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An Invitation to Walk in the Light

Posted on April 9, 2025 by mitchteemley

~from The Simon Peter Chronicles by Mitch Teemley “Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ~John 8:12 ~AΩ~

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Set Aside Your Fears and Walk!

Posted on March 16, 2025 by mitchteemley

Moonrise over the Sea of Galilee, the same body of water upon which Jesus called Peter to do the impossible, to set aside his fears and walk. ≅

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Putting My Search for Meaning On Hold

Posted on March 11, 2025 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d been admitted, I discovered, to one of the top drama schools in the country. The “Welcome Theatre Majors! Party” at a wealthy alumna’s pad, revealed two other things: they could drink and they could think. If they’d been … Continue reading →

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Is Jesus Still on the Cross?

Posted on March 5, 2025 by mitchteemley

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the traditional season of Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter (the Greek word for Lent means “forty”). So what? That’s just old, dead tradition stuff, right? Even after my conversion, I … Continue reading →

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