Today’s Word
The Prayer Imperative
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2 NASB Devote – Yes, it’s fine for Paul to say this. After all, he is a saint. But for you and me? No, devotion to prayer is just too much, especially when it includes “keeping alert.” I don’t know about…
Fun With Hieroglyphics
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 ESV You shall have no – When I visited the British Museum years ago, I bought a game about Egyptian hieroglyphics. It included many rubber stamps of hieroglyphs and an inkpad and provided instructions about constructing sentences by using these markings. Many years later when…
The Genesis Curse (Rewind)
Therefore, the land mourns and all who dwell in it waste away; the animals of the field, the birds of the air, and even the fish of the sea are taken away. Hosea 4:3 (Dearman, NICOT) Mourns – God designed His creation with one thing in mind: response. Everything God did established the opportunity for…
Danger Ahead (Rewind)
Let your way of life be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” Hebrews 13:5 NASB (1963) Being content – What is enough? The Bible answers: what you have been given. That’s a particularly…
Who Are the Outsiders?
These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 10:5-6 NASB Israel – Donna Dozier notes the following about first century community concerns: “This was…
Safe and Secure
Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. Jude 1:5 NASB Did not believe – Most of the time we just skip over this one page letter in the…
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