Tag: nehemiah
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Nehemiah 9 – The People Confess Their Sins
Today’s Short Take on Scripture focuses on confession. Yesterday this personal conviction came to mind from imprinted corporate confession of the church. (You’re church may not use such a confession, but should they lead us in this way?) Confession of Sin Before Communion From the Anglican BCP [Book of Common Prayer] (public domain, source not…
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Let’s cut the crap! Are we under Construction?
What Crap? ‘Our CHURCH has no crap to deal with,’ you say. Nonsense! In a brief post by a reader he addresses such crap using an illustration from Nehemiah. Definition usually vulgar : FECES usually vulgar : the act of defecating slang, sometimes vulgar : NONSENSE, RUBBISH also : STUFF (O.K. Maybe we don’t take…
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The Gatekeeper & the Shepherds
Then the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “Behold, another man running by himself.” And the king said, “This one also is bringing good news.” 2 Samuel 18:16 Of Gatekeepers and Watchmen It would have been a Roman Centurion, Roman guards at the gates of first century…
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Shiloh IS Come
… until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. לֹֽא־יָסוּר שֵׁבֶט מִֽיהוּדָה וּמְחֹקֵק מִבֵּין רַגְלָיו עַד כִּֽי־יָבֹא שֶׂילה וְלֹו יִקְּהַת עַמִּֽים׃ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Genesis 49:10…
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Blessed be God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
PRAISE & WORSHIP GOD! (as faithful worshipers have blessed God and been blessed by God for generations…) Genesis 1:21 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” Genesis 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.…
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The Trumpet of the King
Isaiah 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear! From the futility of our earthly existence the inhabitants of the world look to our own devices and forget the God of Heaven above. We forget that…
