In reading these Scriptures and excerpts, we (hopefully) cannot help but ask ourselves questions like: What area of your life are you not handing over to God (like the rich ruler)? What idols and/or sin are you allowing to remain and slowly infiltrate your habits and ideas (like the nations surrounding the Promised Land)?…
Read MoreThe Israelites were hungry, homeless, and weary, and the Amalekite army sought to take advantage of their circumstances. But God would protect them from this enemy…
Read MoreIf you will allow me a bit of liberty with this one I’d like to “update” this text so it’s easier to understand for the 21st century reader. I do not seek to alter the unchanging nature of God’s Word; I only want to show how we have fallen into the same trap that God’s people did when Isaiah prophesied to them…
Read MoreThe following is a summary of John Stott’s exposition of Titus 3:3-8 found in his commentary on 1 Timothy & Titus. According to Stott, these verses are “perhaps the fullest statement of salvation in the New Testament…
Read MoreIndeed, Jesus’ suffering was not only the cross but all instances he experienced of unjust hatred, doubt, misunderstanding, jealousy and betrayal (a snippet of a much longer list). All this was the result of obedience and righteousness, not personal sin…
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