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A New Year, A New Set of Resolutions (part 2)
Yesterday I posted a few suggestions that I hoped would be helpful in keeping new resolutions. Upon further reflection, I think there are three more that I’d like to add. If you’ve made some resolutions, or just want to change … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, change, Christ, church, courage, faith, help, memory, mnemonic devices, new resolutions, problems, promises, reminders, repentance, resolutions, resolve, root of the problem, sins, specificity
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Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac
Genesis 22 tells the riveting story of Abraham’s offering of Isaac. Isaac was the long awaited son of Abraham and Sarah. He had been promised when Abraham (“father of a multitude” — in honor of the promise) was still called … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, church, courage, faith, faithfulness, fathers, fear, fools, hope, love, obedience, promises, prophecy, resurrection, sacrifice, worship
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Wise Men Still Seek Him
The Christmas story, the story of Christ’s birth and early childhood, will be on the minds of many over the next few weeks. Most of us are more familiar with the Christmas story than we are with any other story … Continue reading
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Tagged birth of Christ, Chaldea, Christ, Christmas, daniel, faith, Gospel, grace, King of the Jews, magi, meaning of life, mercy, Messiah, mothers, nativity, obedience, promises, prophecy, purpose, salvation, spiritual wisdom, wisdom, wise men
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The End — Revelation 19-22
Well, with today’s reading we come to the end of our daily journey through the Bible. It has been a challenge to me personally to both read, reflect, and try to write something cogent that people might want to read. … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, blood, Christ, church, courage, faith, faithfulness, generosity, Gospel, grace, heaven, hope, judgment, justice, love, marriage, meaning of life, mercy, Messiah, obedience, persecution, promises, prophecy, purpose, resurrection, sacrifice, salvation, sin, suffering
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Victorious — Revelation 7-9
We’re still plowing through the book of Revelation. Hopefully, you’re seeing the big picture, grasping the main ideas of the book: the need to avenge the martyr’s blood, the suffering God will bring to the sinful world, the unrepentance of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, church, courage, faith, faithfulness, fear, hope, judgment, mercy, persecution, promises, prophecy, repentance, sin, suffering
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The aroma of Christ — 2 Corinthians 1-3
Today, we move on to the second letter to the Corinthian church. This letter, by the way, is actually not the second letter Paul ever wrote to Corinth; it is probably the fourth. There appears to have been a letter … Continue reading
You’ve been served! — Micah 1-4
The beginning of Micah, our reading today, is in the form of a lawsuit in the ancient world. God has a serious legal issue with Israel: a covenant broken — perhaps we’d call it breach of contract, although covenants are … Continue reading
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Tagged dues, evangelism, grace, promises, puns
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Forgotten days without number — Jeremiah 1-3
Well, today, dear daily Bible readers, we begin reading the prophecies of Jeremiah. One of the things that you’ll notice about prophecy — we’ve noted this briefly before — is that it is not all about the future. Prophets are … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeremiah, nations, promises, threats
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Judgment on God’s rod of judgment — Isaiah 13-15
Justice is hard to truly realize. The reason is because we’re all guilty. Doubtlessly it is one of the most important reasons that God has forbidden us get our own justice or revenge. Today’s reading gives us some reasons to … Continue reading
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Tagged Babylon, Persia, promises, prophecy
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King Josiah of Judah
[This posting can also be found on another blog of mine, Bible 101, and is offered here as a sample of that series of posts, in case you’d like to follow that one, too.] I hope you had a blessed … Continue reading →