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How Can We Hear the Voice of God?: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 3)
There is a disturbing sentiment in much of evangelical Christianity that God does not speak to us personally but that we should expect His voice to be heard only in Scripture, because in Scripture is all
Continue reading...The Invisible Principle Made Visible: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:27-36)
This principle, that God exalts the humble and abases the proud, does God always make it plain that this is what is going on? Or is it left to us to draw the logical conclusion, as we see arrogant men
Continue reading...Cold or Hot or Something Else: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:12-26)
God exalts the humble and abases the proud. But what if you’re in-between? Can you be halfway humble or only somewhat proud? You can, but how does God respond to that? The author of 1 and 2 Samuel
Continue reading...Not By Might Shall One Prevail: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:1-11)
James A. Garfield was our 20th president and served only 6 and a half months because he was shot by an assassin four months into his presidency. But even more remarkable than this is how he became president.
Continue reading...Whoever Humbles Himself: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 1)
There are certain inexorable principles operative in God’s world. One of these principles is that God determines who will be exalted and who will be abased, and this determination is made based on
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Jonah: Should Not I Pity Nineveh? (Jonah 4:5-11)
Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. Now the LORD God appointed
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Jonah: Do You Do Well to Be Angry (Jonah 4:1-4)
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish;
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Jonah: God May Turn (Jonah 3)
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Jonah: Make Me (Jonah 1:17-2:10)
And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, saying, “I
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Jonah: Arise, Sleeper! (Jonah 1:4-16)
But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Jonah: Obedience Brings Blessing (Jonah 1:1-3)
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Holy to Yahweh (Zechariah 14:10-21)
The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Feet of Jesus (Zechariah 14:1-9)
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Pierce the Piercers (Zechariah 13:2-9)
“And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Pierced Yahweh (Zechariah 12:10-13:1)
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him,
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