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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8-9 How do we know the will of God? Is His will knowable? How can [...]
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. –Isaiah 53.5 What Jesus did on the cross for us will never get old. It continues to baffle humanity’s finite minds more than two thousand years [...]
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were at the end of their rope. Their faith in God brought them trouble. They were gonna be punished for their convictions. It was their last chance to either profess allegiance to a foreign deity and live; or stick to the God of the Hebrews and die. The furnace was being [...]
Last Sunday was the third installment of the four-part series on INTRUSION. The following are some of the notes I scribbled while reading Judges 6.11-24. 1. He was fed up with a life of defeat. He knew the stories of God’s miraculous deliverances of Israel but as he looked around the realities of his life [...]
Have you ever noticed that the Bible almost always mentions Abraham, Isaac and Jacob together? Why can’t the writer just say Abraham, period? Why lump them together? Family. That’s the reason why. When God thinks about us, He thinks of us in the context of our families. Families matter to Him. He cares about how [...]