Today’s Word

I Just Can’t Do It!

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:10 NASB Weak – If you read the list of trials in the first part of the verse and stop before you come to the final…
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Time Out

Today is my birthday. This year I am not on an airplane alone, flying to some teaching destination. Today I am in Reggio Emilia, Italy, with my wife Rosanne. I will have a great Italian meal and a good glass of wine and remember that God designed me for a purpose that has taken seventy-one…
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Anonymous

Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them. Exodus 1:21 NASB Midwives – Name one hundred important Biblical people. Better include some of these women since without them Israel would have expired in Egypt. But I’ll bet you can’t name them, or even one hundred that have names. I’ll bet that after you…
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Confidential Informant

But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 2 Chronicles 11:2 NASB Shemaiah – The prophet’s role is to deliver a message from God. It is not his message. He is merely the messenger. But to be a messenger requires a certain kind of relationship with the One sending…
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What We Really Want

“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5 NASB You will be like God – Translated in this way, the serpent’s voice strikes us as the epitome of arrogance, hubris and folly. Of course we can’t…
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The First Cut is the Deepest

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!” Job 2:9 NASB Curse – Job’s wife has only a few words to say, but, according to David Penchansky, what she says summarizes the entire story of this suffering, righteous man. She speaks sarcastically, telling Job, “Curse God…
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