What Happened to Egypt?

That is the question that came to my mind when Debbie and I visited there on a group tour in 2000. We had an opportunity to stay in Cairo and then travel south. We stayed at a hotel on the Nile. To my surprise, instead of the murky waters of the Nile in Cairo, the(…)

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NOAH, DANIEL AND JOB

Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it…even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God. Ezekiel 14:13,14 (ESV)  Background     In Ezekiel 14, the Lord is pronouncing four judgments on Jerusalem(…)

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LIVE FOR THE VERTICAL

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.“You shall have no other gods beforeme. Exodus 20:2-3 (ESV) “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come, your will be done,    on earth as it is in heaven.” Matt. 6:10 (ESV)           There is an interesting(…)

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Continual Praise

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised. Psa. 113:3 NIV           I thought of this verse that reveals the Lord’s praise across the nations last Sunday during our worship service. My pastor referred to how worship was taking place that was(…)

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The Why Behind the What

As I read through scripture, I notice the recurring wording following an action of the Lord or His servants. It is often worded as “In order to,” “In order that,” or “So that.”           This time around, I am reading the Good News Translation. In this Bible version, those phrases occur twenty-one times in the(…)

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The Bookends of the Bible

Although the Bible is a collection of 66 books written by 40 different authors over 1,500 years, it is amazing the flow of the themes that appear.           Genesis begins with the creation of the world and Adam and Eve in a garden paradise, where they enjoy the blessings of God, who is with them(…)

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