Today’s Word

Wilderness Politics

A voice is calling, “Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.  Isaiah 40:3 NASB Voice– Exodus is a book about the wilderness.  It begins with God’s miraculous demonstration of redemption, the removal of His chosen people from bondage in Egypt. It doesn’t take a theological degree to see…
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Closer

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh. Exodus 7:7  NASB Eighty years old– I’m getting closer.  Today I am another year closer.  Oh, not to being Moses.  That’s never going to happen.  No, I’m just another year closer to maybe being useful to God. At least I hope so.  I can wait.  God…
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Utopia

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.  2 Corinthians 5:1 NASB Not made with hands– We’re just too much a part of our expected reality to see much beyond the edge.  We struggle and…
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It’s Not Greek

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.  James 1:25  NASB Liberty– Translators could just have easily written this as “the law of freedom.”  The Greek word is eleuthería, a word…
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Dark Sayings

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”  Matthew 13:10  NASB Parables– “The Bible is familiar, life is strange.”[1]  Maybe we have it backwards.  Maybe the “dark sayings” are really how we live, and those verses in the Bible that seem so odd and impenetrable at first,…
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Conflict

Make friends quickly with your opponent at law. .   Matthew 5:25  NASB Make Friends– God reminds me that I need considerable improvement in the area of interpersonal conflict.  It’s not that I am an angry, hostile man. Most people find me congenial, friendly, and helpful.  That’s how I like to think of myself.  But God lets me…
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