- You are here:
- Home »
- temptation
Category Archives for temptation
Make No Boast – 1 Kings 7
Building projects. It’s hard not to want whatever you are building, a house, an office, a store, a church, to be perfect. You might be building a company, a family, or a work process. You can get
Continue reading...Look Great, Taste Terrible – 2 Peter 2:17-22
Many years ago in my first and last attempt at being a vegetable gardener I planted radish seeds (I loved radishes then and now, but they no longer love me back). When we harvested our radishes they looked
Continue reading...Tickle Me: 2 Peter 2:10b-16
Are your ears ticklish? I don’t think mine are. If you want to torture me it’s my underarms that are most ticklish. Some people crumble when you squeeze their knees. Others have ticklish necks
Continue reading...Seduced by the Dark Side: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 18)
Have we been seduced by wealth and the pursuit of wealth? It is a question worth asking because it is depicted as one of our and God’s major enemies to be dealt with in the last days. After this
Continue reading...Uh Oh: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 11)
A friend of mine painted a watercolor of Uriah during a sermon series on heroes of the Bible. It hung in my office for many years. In the background, behind a wall, a silhouette of a woman can be seen,
Continue reading...Millstone Sins: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:42-50)
All sin affects not only the sinner but those connected to the sinner, even if in seemingly imperceptible ways. But there is a sin against others that causes them to sin and is viewed by God as particularly
Continue reading...Stopping the Infection: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:14-21)
When I was a kid and fell and cut open my knee my mom put this lovely red liquid on it that burned like fire. Mercurochrome. Remember it, you old people? It was to kill bacteria. Bacteria could
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Temptation (Mark 1:12-13)
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. (Mark
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 1:30,31: Wilderness (Yeshimon)
41 Wilderness (Yeshimon) Yahweh your God, who is going ahead of you, will fight on your behalf, just as he accomplished all those things for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31 and likewise in the desert,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 4:34: Ordeals (Massot)
40 Ordeals (Massot) Or has God ever tried to go and take for himself a nation from the very bowels of another nation, by means of ordeals, signs, wonders, war, a mighty hand, an outstretched arm and great
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 34:10-12: A Prophet Like Moshe (Navi K’Mosheh)
39 A Prophet Like Moshe (Nabi K’Mosheh) Since that time there has not arisen in Isra’el a prophet like Moshe, whom Yahweh knew face to face. What signs and wonders Yahweh sent him to perform
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 34:9: Spirit of Wisdom (Ruach Chak’mah)
38 Spirit of Wisdom (Ruach Chak’mah) Y’hoshua the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of wisdom, for Moshe had laid his hands on him, and the people of Isra’el heeded him and did what Yahweh had
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 34:7,8: Mourned (Vayiv’ku)
37 Mourned (Vayiv’ku) Moshe was 120 years old when he died, with eyes undimmed and vigor undiminished. The people of Isra’el mourned Moshe on the plains of Mo’av for thirty days; after this, the
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 34:1-6: All the Land (Kal-et Haaretz)
36 All the Land (Kal-et Haaretz) Moshe ascended from the plains of Mo’av to Mount N’vo, to the summit of Pisgah, across from Yericho. There Yahweh showed him all the land — Gil‘ad as far as Dan, all
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Deuteronomy 33:1-3: This Is the Blessing (V’zoth Hab’rakah)
35 This is the Blessing (V’zoth Hab’rakah) This is the blessing that Moshe, the man of God, spoke over the people of Isra’el before his death: “Yahweh came from Sinai; from Se‘ir he dawned
Continue reading...