Tag: kings
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Running from God – 5 – God pursues
Are you running from God? Here we have Elijah sulking in victory and awaiting defeat under the shade of a broom tree. We have heard the same Peter who would glorify Jesus and Moses and Elijah with a shrine, deny knowing Jesus when he risked imprisonment or execution for his confession of Christ. We have…
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Running from God – 4 – Elijah’s defeat
‘Wait,’ you’re thinking, Elijah won the contest. 1 Kings 18: 37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.” 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones…
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Running from God – 3 – Elijah
Are you loyal to God? A fair question. Deuteronomy 6:5 KJV And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. You shall love the Lord your God with ALL. Jesus even adds some definition for us of the well-recited Hebrew in the familiar…
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But if…
“But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods, 18 then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. – Deuteronomy 30:17-18a NLT God’s love for us is unconditional; yet God’s blessing is conditional – dependent on our obedience…
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The Wife of your Youth
I have some marital confessions to make. First: I Love Lissette Harned, my Blessing. Lissette is not the wife of my youth, but she is the wife of my vows and covenant and continued pouring out of love. Song of Solomon 4 English Standard Version (ESV) Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty Behold, you are beautiful, my…
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Lord of the Sabbath
Dr. Luke retells two stories of witnesses about Jesus and the Sabbath. (We should consider that the Good News is witness of the message of salvation, though the story of Jesus is not always chronological.) The time of these witnessed stories is not so important as the point. Returning (for this) to Luke 6: Jesus…
