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It Isn’t Good – Isaiah 41:1–7
As a kid I used to like playing the board game Stratego. Two players, each with an army of multiple specialists (spies, miners, etc.) went to war with each other. The best strategy won. Yahweh says
Continue reading...Star Power – Isaiah 40:21-26
There are an estimated 400 billion stars in our galaxy. There are an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in God’s universe. A low end estimate of how many stars there are in the universe – 1
Continue reading...No Comparison – Isaiah 40:12-20
Someone has finally done it. They have compared apples and oranges. And there are more similarities than you would think. Sarah Zielinski shows that “the two fruits have a similar size and
Continue reading...Leviathan – Isaiah 27
At mythology.net there is a page dedicated to sea monsters. Every sea going culture has had stories of them. Were the stories of them spawned actual creatures of the sea which were misidentified, or
Continue reading...God-Complex – Isaiah 14:3, 12-20
I had a fellow ask me how I would respond to someone who thought God had made a mistake when He created Satan. Here is the sarcastic answer I gave: We joke about God creating mosquitos by mistake, but
Continue reading...God Our Hero – Isaiah 1:2-4
There is a question/answer session quarterback Tom Brady is holding on media day before the 2017 Super Bowl, and it always gets to me. A kid sitting on his dad’s shoulders asks Tom who his hero is.
Continue reading...Not Enough – 2 Kings 23:21-37
“A hundred years ago it’s thought that around a fifth of the population of the Middle East was Christian, although it’s hard to be certain. These days the figure is probably closer to
Continue reading...Worship By the Word – 2 Kings 23:1-20
A trip through any part of India shows what it must have looked like in Israel when she was in idolatry. There are shrines and temples everywhere throughout the cities and villages. They are usually very
Continue reading...Spiritual Customization – 2 Kings 16
Like her television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar’s personal spirituality borrows from a hodgepodge of religions. “I consider myself a spiritual person,”
Continue reading...A Convenient Truth – 2 Kings 14
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore made famous the expression “an inconvenient truth” in his documentary and book about global warming. But there are some truths that seem convenient and that
Continue reading...Even Small Repentance – 2 Kings 13
Have you ever had someone you loved who messed up a lot but when they would once show some sign of repentance, no matter how meager, you would have hope for them again? This is how Yahweh is responding
Continue reading...Actions Speak Louder Than Words – 2 Kings 9:30-10:36
I hate to say it, but when a politician publicly identifies himself as a Christian I become doubtful of him. In the part of the U.S. I live in you have a greater chance of being elected if you identify
Continue reading...Roadblocks – 2 Kings 3
We had put our two youngest kids in a private Christian school, but when the pay cut came we just couldn’t afford it. But it led us to a public school program that turned out to be exactly what we
Continue reading...What Is Idolatry? – 2 Kings 1
If I think of an example of modern day idolatry I think of the prosperity gospel. Wikipedia has a pretty good definition: Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health
Continue reading...Tests to Determine God’s Truth – 1 Kings 18:20-46
Should we set up tests with unbelievers to demonstrate the truth of our belief in God and Jesus Christ? Elijah set up just such a test to show whether Baal or Yahweh was the true God. Of course, if, like
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