Romans 6:15-23 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are [Continue Reading…]
2 Samuel 12:1-15A The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had a [Continue Reading…]
I once had a conversation with a friend, who was a Sunni Muslim, about his beliefs. He said that they believed they (Muslims) replaced the Jews as God’s chosen people, because of all the times when [Continue Reading…]
All throughout the Old Testament, we read about how God continuously worked towards getting His people to act as God’s people. It meant so much for God’s people to behave as such that God gave [Continue Reading…]
I’m going to take a step back for a moment, and return to Mark 2:15-17, where Jesus is sitting and enjoying meal fellowship with Levi and his sinner-friends. Some Pharisees (Teachers of Religious Law) noticed [Continue Reading…]
The beginning of 2 Kings 18 starts off with Hezekiah succeeding his father, the most evil king of Judah, Ahaz. Israel was well known for having evil kings who had lead the Northern Kingdom into [Continue Reading…]
Lately I’ve been reading through 1 Kings and the Gospel of Matthew. Today, I read 1 Kings 9, and you know, I’ve gotta say that for a man who’s known to be the wisest man [Continue Reading…]
1 Samuel 17:12-58 takes us through the story of David and Goliath, and what an awesome story this is, and fight it turned out to be, not only because of the contrasts between sizes of [Continue Reading…]
One day, some time ago, I was taking a nap–in my car. A Little Background My wife and I used to live in Newport News, Virginia, and she’d gotten a job in Chesapeake. So she’d [Continue Reading…]
Hey Andy, who is the Man with a sword in Joshua 5:13? Hi, thanks for asking. It is the Archangel Michael? One take would be that it was the archangel Michael, for Revelation 12 tells [Continue Reading…]
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