My wife and I sat down in the seats of an auditorium and noticed that the woman to the right had a small baby-stroller in front of her. I did a double-take when I noticed that the occupant of the stroller was not a baby, but a little fuzzy haired terrier. It was sitting quietly while...
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May
11
2017
16Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as bondservants of God. 1 Peter 2:16 38Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you...
Apr
28
2017
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the...
Apr
20
2017
In the sacrificial system in the Old Testament, many of the sacrifices required that salt be used. Here’s one example: You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD. (Ezekiel 43:24 ) The apostle Paul picks up this imagery...
Apr
13
2017
In John chapter nine, when Jesus healed a man born blind it created huge problems for His enemies: It meant that Jesus actually had the power to heal people! “The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his...
Apr
7
2017
Why do people who are faithful to God undergo undeserved trials and suffering? We can answer that question directly from the bible by comparing people who had the “big picture” of the real world with those who didn’t. In the book of Psalms, there are a number of places where the Psalmist will express dismay and...
Mar
29
2017
1In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, Jeremiah 28:1 1These are...
Mar
16
2017
In him we were also chosen, . . .in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, live for the praise of His glory. (Eph. 1:11-12) The apostle Paul wrote these words to a little band of first century Christians who lived in the city of Ephesus. As he continues he...