“For my people have done two evil things: they have abandoned me – the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that hold not water at all.” (Jeremiah 2:13 NLT) When we visited Israel last year I was taken aback…
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“Will You not revive us again, that Your people will rejoice in You?” (Psalm 85:6 NIV) I knew a man who died once. Had a heart attack in his front yard. He flatlined before the ambulance arrived. They used the paddles to bring him back.…
“But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. Little by little, I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the…
“Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you: therefore He will rise up to show you compassion.” (Isiah 30:19 NIV) One of my all-time favorite movies is Father of the Bride. If I’ve seen it once, I’ve probably seen it thirty times. The movie…
Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.” (Genesis 3:9-10 NLT) Why do we hide? Sin, for sure, will send us into hiding.…
“Therefore, as you have received Christ the Lord, so walk in Him,” (Colossians 2:6 ESV) Matthew Henry has a great deal to say about this particular verse: “Received Him is to have consented to Him, taken Him for our in every relation and every capacity.…
“When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him…
“For this is what the high and exalted One says – He who lives forever who’s name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the…
“Teach this who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.” (2 Timothy 6:17 NLT) Wealth can…
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you out to have done without neglecting the others. You blind guides, striving out a…