Bible
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When I don’t know how to pray
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer. Daniel 9:3 What was Daniel’s life really like? He was abducted from his homeland as a young man, probably in his early teens. He and his friends were put under the Chief of the Eunuchs – the logical deduction is that as… Continue reading
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The Question is…
The golden image had been raised, the command had gone out, the music played. A sea of humanity as one has rushed to comply, to bow down, to worship this idol, this golden image of a non-god as commanded by their megalomaniac king. Still standing among this wave of bent backs are three young foreigners:… Continue reading
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It’s not the Close, it’s the Consummation!
“…teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20 ESV Five times in Matthew’s Gospel Jesus uses a particular word. In every case Jesus and his disciples are looking forwards to the end. Four times the word is translated… Continue reading
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Standing in the Breach
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. Ezekiel 22:30 ESV In exile, still, God declares “me you have forgotten” (Ezekiel 22:12), but the ultimate guilt is laid on… Continue reading
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Relationship, Really
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20:9 ESV Where God is concerned, relationship comes first, rules follow.… Continue reading