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Kick to the Teeth – Job 11

In the creative world of role-playing gaming there is a character named Zophar whom fandom.com describes this way: Zophar is the God of Destruction whose only purpose is to spread evil across the universe.

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Court Anxiety – Job 9

According to Law and Order Record Retrieval: Subpoenas are legal documents that summon a witness or other important party to attend a court proceeding…you will need to find an appropriate process

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Naked I Came – Job 1:6-22

When I got into high school in my new home in St. Louis, MO, I didn’t want to draw attention to myself, I was shy. So when on the first day of classes they called roll, “William Johnson!”,

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Clout – Matthew 22:1-14

A Forbes magazine contributor talks about digital world Klout. “Klout is the brainchild of a San Franciso-based startup that aggregates your following, the number of times you are re-Tweeted or

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Divine Generosity – Matthew 20:1-16

The rich young ruler (Matthew 19) had given much thought to how to acquire eternal life but upon seeking help from Jesus he refused to accept Jesus’ answer and walked away unbelieving. The thief

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Truth Telling, Not Swearing – Matthew 5:33-37

Someone tongue in cheek has given a formula for determining a politician’s productivity: multiply the lies by the promises and divide by the smirks. We give politicians a hard time but broken promises

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A Spotty Heritage – Matthew 1:2-17

What does your genealogy show about you? Does having bad people in your ancestry mean you are a bad person or that you should be ashamed. I recently saw a woman who called in to a talk show for a contest

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He Is Able to Deliver Thee – 2 Kings 19

The little girl got her Christmas present early, a new pair of ice skates, so she could go with her new friends. She skated long after her friends quit and while alone fell into the pond where the ice

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Trusting God in Times of Persecution – 1 Kings 18:1-19

We do not live in times of much persecution for our faith here in the United States. Our fellow Christians in India, Bangladesh, China, Iran, Dubai and Sri Lanka, just to name a few, are suffering much

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No Good Luck Charm – 1 Kings 6

Does God live in houses? No doubt there have been some whose conception of God fit that possibility. Perhaps some in Israel thought like that. But they weren’t supposed to. David and Solomon understood

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Spiritual Manipulation: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7

One of the ways we humans try to guarantee a positive future is manipulating God. Oh, we don’t call it that. We call it making a vow. It seems very spiritual. After all, Jacob did it: Then Jacob

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God’s Mystery Revealed: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 10)

The last seven years of the Daniel 9 prophecy are begun with a covenant that the “prince who is to come” (Dan. 9:26, the man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:3) makes with Israel, a covenant

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The Merciful Judging God: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 8:6-13)

Many people find the final judgment of God hard to square with His love and mercy. I suspect, if they thought about it, they would find the absence of such judgment hard to square with his love and mercy,

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Worthy: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 5:6-14)

Worthy. Look that up on the internet and one of the first sites you see is a site that wants to help you sell your high end ring. They say, “The authenticity of items is of…importance to us. Every

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A Taste of Heaven: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 4:1-11)

Did Walt Disney think of Disney World and Disney Land as little tastes of heaven? Pastor Greg Laurie thinks so. As Laurie notes, the Bible tells us that God has put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes

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