“About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church….Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.” Acts12:1, 23 July 19, 2022 “Herod Agrippa I, 10 BC-44 AD, king over […]
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“About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword…” Acts 12:1-2 July 18, 2022 Perhaps it is a sign of the times, mine only, but as a teenager I really got into the comics section in the newspaper.
but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?…But he [Peter] denied it, saying, ‘Woman, I do not know him.‘” Luke 22:48, 57 July 15-16, 2022 Who of us has not had to deal with disappointment? A baseball game rained out as a youth, a broken heart over
You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” Isaiah 47:10 July 14, 2022 Perhaps you have wondered why the Bible gives so much attention to Babylon, especially in
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Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”. Isaiah 47:8 July 13, 2022 Alexander Solzhenitsyn was described in 1983, upon receiving the Templeton Prize for Progress
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“Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.” Psalm 7:14 July 12, 2022 Strange language has entered into news reporting. We read of “pregnant persons.” No, not pregnant women. We are to assume, wrongly, that men can also be pregnant. Of course this is absurd, but as the
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“[Love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 July 8-9, 2022 One of the conceptual causalities of our times is confusion about the relationship between truth and love. Love has been kidnapped and redefined by our secular culture. It has been reduced to whatever makes one feel comfortable. Truth
“There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes , a lying tongue…” Proverbs 6:16-17 July 7, 2022 Do we hate the things that God hates? If we do, we will hate pride. There is a form of pride that finds satisfaction in the achievement of good things
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“There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood…” Proverbs 6:16-17 July 6, 2022 Let us first of all understand what abortion is. It is the extraction or expulsion of the immature human fetus from the mother’s womb prior
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“Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.” 1 Corinthians 10:11 July 5, 2022 Have you experienced disappointment in someone you admired as a fellow Christian, but whose private sin spilled over into their public life. To
