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Are Children Really Born Sinful?
Question: What do you see as the implications for children from this verse: The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though
Continue reading...Did Samuel Lie to Saul?
Question: In 1 Samuel 13:13 Samuel tells king Saul that if he had obeyed Yahweh, Yahweh would have established his kingdom forever. But this can’t be true. Saul was a Benjamite, and the prophecy of Jacob
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Putting It Off Instead of Doing It Now
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country
Continue reading...My New Book
I have written a new book called, John 1:1 and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It looks in-depth at the first verse of John’s Gospel and interacts with Jehovah’s Witnesses’ view that
Continue reading...Universal Outreach – Matthew 15:21-28
It appears that one of the charges Muslims bring against Christianity is taken from Matthew 15 where Jesus says he came only for the lost sheep of Israel. Christianity, they argue, is only for the Jews,
Continue reading...The Discipline of God – 2 Kings 8:16-9:29
I have experienced the discipline of God and you have also. Because God loves us and knows that what we need the most is godliness, He disciplines us, trains us, sometimes using painful circumstances,
Continue reading...Relationship and Rectitude: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 2:18-29)
Would you be happy with your child if he didn’t love you or want relationship with you as long as he did the right things? If he did want relationship with you but tolerated all sorts of misbehavior,
Continue reading...Relentless and Prophetic Enemies: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 26)
Enemies can be relentless and even prophetic. David understands this. Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?”
Continue reading...The Unique Answer of Christianity to the Three Religious Questions
Every religion gives answers to three main questions: Does God exist and if so, who is He? Am I okay with God and if not, why not? If I’m not okay with God, how do I get okay with Him? Here is
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: High Tide (2:5-9)
For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Romans: How Gentiles Get In (9:22-33)
Daily Thoughts from Romans: How Gentiles Get In What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Romans: Anguish for Israel (9:1-13)
Daily Thoughts from Romans: Anguish for Israel I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Israel in the Land (36:1-13)
The heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Discipline and the Divine Presence (35:1-34)
The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Numbers: God’s Big Purposes (34:1-15)
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined
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