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God’s School of Suffering
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis 5:20 August 17, 2023 Contemporary Christianity seems to be conspiring against a biblical theology of pain and suffering. The health and wealth gospel, the signs…
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Creating Calamity
“I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.” Isaiah 45:7 August 16, 2023 Imagine, if you can, a wall of fire of 1,000-degree temperature coming toward you traveling at one minute in a mile. The Lahaina, Hawaii fire storm is an unwelcome…
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Masquerading
“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:5 August 15, 2023 We are hearing a lot about “mental illness” these days. With mental sins being in exile our secularized society has to find vocabulary that…
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Jump!
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” Romans 12:1 August 14, 2023 The Christian’s resources in Christ are extraordinary. At conversion there are over 32 immediate provisions to live the Christian life. There…
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Jesus Christ: Our Intelligent Designer
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.” Colossians 1:15-16 August 11, 2023 Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Jonas Salk,…
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The Care of Creation
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” Genesis 1:28 August 10, 2023 As Christians we have…
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The Dust of Death
“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19 August 9, 2023 Sin did its dirty work. Death descended upon what had been designed for perfection and delight. In…
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The Very Good of the Early Earth
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” Genesis 1:31 August 8, 2023 Six times in the first chapter of Genesis God declared His creation work as good. Then after everything in the universe had been brought into…
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Our Planet’s Future
“For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption.” Romans 8:20-21 August 7, 2023 Is there any hope for planet earth? Are we headed for a creation catastrophe? Voices from everywhere are telling…