"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
One of the more interesting and enlightening interactions Jesus has with a person during His three plus year ministry on earth is found in John 4:1-42. Here we have Jesus initiating a public interaction with a woman, and not any woman but a Samaritan woman. His doing so would have made this a highly scandalous […]
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The above title is not an invitation to behold – to gaze intently upon – to give full attention to the object of our worship, although this would be most appropriate if the object of our worship is Jesus Christ (John 1:14) (Hebrews 12:2) (Colossians 3:1-2). In fact, it is only in beholding Him that
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O’ come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! Psalm 95:6 Mankind was created in the image of God to be worshipers of God – of the one true God – to pursue and experience our greatest joy, our greatest pleasure, our ultimate satisfaction and significance in knowing
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(The following was first posted in July 2020) The term glory is a term rarely used or understood in our modern society. Its dictionary definition is that of effulgence (brightness or outshining of an object such as a star); the weightiness or value of an object, event or person; the measure of someone or something’s
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(The following was first posted in July 2020) “O that a new man would rise up within me and conquer the man that I am.” Author Unknown The above is a quote I heard or read a number of years ago. I don’t remember the context in which I heard or read it and have
A number of years ago I was reading or listening to an interview with Joni Eareckson Tada, a Christian author, artist and singer, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident at age 17. Her story is one of growing from deep anger and bitterness toward God to being able to,
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Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5). The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So, God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their
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Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4) Of all of the verses and passages in the Bible, of all of the exceeding great and precious promises from God found in the Bible (2 Peter 1:2-4), I cannot think of one more fascinating, more intriguing, more
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I no longer listen to “Classic Rock” stations, but when I did you could bet that the AC/DC classic, Highway to Hell, was on the playlist. Released in 1979, it instantly became a hit and has been used in numerous movie soundtracks since. It was rightly criticized for its glamorization of Hell as a desirable
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In Psalm 24:3-6, King David presents the exclusive standards of true holiness God requires for a person to live in His immediate, unveiled presence when he writes, who will ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not