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The Real Culture War – Micah 7

Click here to read Micah 7 on BibleGateway.com “Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the Lord’s wrath. ” – Micah 7:9  If, like myself, you grew up in an American church, you have undoubtedly heard how “things…

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Acronymity: The Hidden Meaning of Scripture

Click here to read 2 Corinthians 1 on BibleGateway.com “…there is nothing written between the lines and nothing you can’t understand. – Corinthians 1:13 Computer programmers are notorious for their love of acronyms. Every time some new idea shows up,…

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Special Edition: Was Jesus the Descendent of Joash

David’s Descendant  2Ki 11:1 However, Jehosheba, the wife of the high priest Jehoiada, hid Ahaziah’s infant son (Joash) and preserved David’s family line. From this family line came the Messiah (the “Anointed One,” Savior, Christ) (vv. 2-3; 2Sa 7:11, 16; 1Ki…

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After Love

Click here to read I Corithians 14 on BibleGateway.com Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy – I Corinthians 14:1 K.i.s.s.i.n.gFirst comes love, then comes marriageThen comes what’s-his-name with a baby carriage. Is…

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The Maybe

Click here to read I Samuel 27 on BibleGateway.com I’m often fascinated by Abigail in the story of King David. If you don’t know her background, quick sumup is she was married to a rich doofus named Nabal who tried…

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Mystery Seeds

Click here to read Mark 4 on BibleGateway.com Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head,…

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The Regretted Inferno

Click here to read Esther 7 on BibleGateway.com “But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.” – Esther 7:7 Burning a bridge is the recurring daydream of everyone…

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Do You Really Want an Answer?

Click here to read Jeremiah 12 on BibleGateway.com “You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice. ” – Jeremiah 12:1 Once upon a time, there was a young chap in the…

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The Only

Click here to read 2 Chronicles 32 on BibleGateway.com “They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the other peoples” – 2 Chronicles 32:19 First off, little disclaimer for today:  this is more of…

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Can we build it? Yes we can. But Why?

Click here to read I Kings 6 on BibleGateway.com I’ll be the first to admit that construction in any form is not my forte.  Most of my projects end up looking they were completed by a blind gibbon who used…

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When the Crowds Come

Click here to read Deuteronomy 28 on BibleGateway.com Click here to read Isaiah 55 on BibleGateway.com “nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with…

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The UnSandaled Savior

Click here to read Deuteronomy 25 on BibleGateway.com “His brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face…That man’s line shall be known in Israel as…

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Unwell Wishing

Click here to read Psalm 108-109 on BibleGateway.com “Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy…may a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.” –  Psalm 109: 6,11 Thanks to invulnerable yet unpredictable green men, anger has…

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The Christian Clique

Click here to read Deuteronomy 20 on BibleGateway.com “Then the officers shall add, “Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too” – Deuteronomy 20:9 Visit any high school (or, if…

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By the Will of God

Click here to read Ephesians 1 on BibleGateway.com “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God…” Ephesians 1:1 Think of an animal that starts with K.  Now think of a continent. Did you think of Australia?  Why?  Is…

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Guilt Trip

Click here to read 2 Corinithians 8 on BibleGateway.com “They exceeded our expectations…bring also to completion this act of grace on your part.” – 2 Cor. 8:5-6 Sometimes the ol’ English language is a little tricky for the Believer.  Words have…

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8 Seconds With God

Without a show of hands, who here has managed to pray for more than ten minutes in row? Can anyone honestly say they’ve never fallen asleep in church before? Are you willing to admit that every once in a while,…

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That Deescalated Quickly

Click here to read Psalm 34 on BibleGateway.com “Seek peace and pursue it.” – Psalm 34:14 There are a lot of downsides to getting older. Joints get creakier, bruises take about six years to heal, the increasing bran in the diet,…

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The One Habit of Highly Effective People

Click here to read I Samuel 17 on BibleGateway.com “All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s” – I Samuel 17:47 Bookstores are full of books…

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Biblical Vegetarianism

Click here to read Romans 14 on BibleGateway.com “Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.” – Romans 14:2 I am not a vegetarian. Now I don’t say this as a point of contention; that is, it doesn’t…

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Class Discussion

Click here to read Romans 9 on BibleGateway.com “Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy,…But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?” – Romans 9:18-20 Often in classrooms, particularly at the University level,…

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He Must Be the Greatest

Click here to read Deuteronomy 34 on BibleGateway.com “And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said… but to this day no one knows where his grave is.”  Deuteronomy 34:5-6 Listen to any major athlete…

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Details Details

Click here to read Matthew 7 on BibleGateway.com “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”  Matthew 7:12 For most people, the goal for most communication…

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Mock Battle

Click here to read Psalm 119 on BibleGateway.com  “The arrogant mock me unmercifully, but I do not turn from your law.” – Psalm 119:51  Richard Dawkins, a well-known atheist, once told an audience that non-believers should not be polite when confronting Christians: “Mock them! Ridicule…

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Clothes Make the Man

Click here to read Matthew 3 on BibleGateway.com  “John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.” – Matthew 3:4 There’s nothing like a good pair of jeans.  They’re tough, they fit just about any…

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The Fairest of Them All

Click here to read Deuteronomy 21 on BibleGateway.com  “you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.” – Deuteronomy 21:9 We love to assign blame. …

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The Hope of War

Click here to read Deuteronomy 20 on BibleGateway.com  “When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit….

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Jacob’s Ladder

Click here to read Genesis 30 on BibleGateway.com  “So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.” – Genesis 31:9 When we first meet our good friend Jacob, he forces his starving brother Esau to fork…

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Must…Boil…Goat…

Click here to read Exodus 34 on BibleGateway.com “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” – Exodus 34:26 For the most part, the Bible is fairly reasonable with all the commandyness. Don’t murder, don’t steal, keep God first,…

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That Escalated Quickly

Click here to read John 12 on BibleGateway.com So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,  for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him. – John 12:10-11 Everything…

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Wild Kingdom

Click here to read Luke 23 on BibleGateway.com When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform…

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Reasonable Doubt

Click here to read Job 37 on BibleGateway.com Tell us what we should say to him;  we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.  – Job 37:19 Is there anything worse than being shown you don’t know as…

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Stumblerooski

Click here to read 2 Corinthians 6 on BibleGateway.com We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. – 2 Corinthians 6:3 History is full of unintended consequences, sometimes in a way almost humorous….

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Things Never Change – Until They Do

Click here to read Luke 17 on BibleGateway.com People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. – Luke 17:27 Recently, a prominent agnostic writer…

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The Crooked and Narrow

Click here to read Exodus 13 on BibleGateway.com When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their…

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Purposeful Innocence

Click here to read Job 30 on BibleGateway.com Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor? Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness. – Job 30:25-26…

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Consequential Legacy

Click here to read Genesis 34 on BibleGateway.com Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me… if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.” – Genesis 34:30 It’s hard…

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Never Happy

Click here to read Matthew 11 on BibleGateway.com “For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard” – Matthew…

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When God Shows Up

Click here to read 2 Kings 1 on BibleGateway.com “This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub?” 2 Kings 1:16 Once upon…

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Heart Drive

Click here to read Ezekiel 36 on BibleGateway.com “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I…

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