Tag: Church
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Redemption
I want to tell you a story of an old woman and one of a young woman; a story of relationship and temptation. 2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. Scene I is in Jerusalem, about a thousand years or ten centuries after this record of Samuel from…
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Esau I Hated
Malachi 1:2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. We pray to God: ‘Give me a blessing.’ ‘I cannot do this alone?’ ‘Please help me, Lord.’ We acknowledge God as our Father and as our…
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Samekh
Depart from me… Picture the stoic traditionalist teachers of the Bible venturing out from the mega-cathedral to a far from urban valley of the Jordan and encountering a crowd that should be in church. They are listening to an unkempt man with uncut hair and rags of animal skins and leather. As they descend the…
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