I recently listened to a sermon where the preacher relived his memories of playing video games as a boy. Whenever a game wasn’t going someone’s way, he said, all they had to do was dive for the reset button. And just like that, the playing field was even again. Wouldn’t it be great if life …
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Read John 4: 1-30 There was something about his eyes, the way he looked at her. It was unsettling. She thought she knew all about men, understood how they thought. But this was different. “Go and call your husband,” he said. She hesitated, eyes lowered. “I have none.” He nodded. ““True. You’ve had five…and the …
In a stunning fulfillment of prophecy declared 150 years earlier by the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 44:28), King Cyrus of Persia proclaimed that God’ people (now broadly known as Jews) should return to their homeland and rebuild God’s temple (Ezra 1:1-4). So up went the tribal leaders, priests and Levites who felt God’s urging to execute …
Read: Ezekiel 37 “He asked me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’” (Ezekiel 37:3a) The question caught Ezekiel off guard. For a moment, his mind wandered back to his very first vision of God. Then, he had seen the heavens opened and had caught a glimpse of God and the awesome majesty of his …
Daniel served prominently in the Babylonian court for decades, gaining the favor of one king after the other. Eventually, his counterparts got fed up - Daniel’s exceptional qualities were making the rest of them look bad. Seeing no other way to trip him up, a bold plan was hatched to attack him on the subject …
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No sooner did Daniel and his friends arrive in Babylon than they were cherry picked to serve in the royal court. Over the course of an intensive three year training period, they were to eat from the king’s table, learn the language and literature of the Chaldeans and even obtain new identities. No question about …
Things started going downhill when Israel clamored for a king. “No,” they responded to Samuel’s pleas to reconsider. “but we will have a king over us, that we may also be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” 1 Samuel 8:19b – …
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If Not Read: Daniel 3 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will …
Israel had fallen to the Assyrians years before. Yet Judah, believing herself favored of God, did not amend her ways. Before long, she too was in chains. The temple was destroyed and the land abandoned as exiles were carried off to Babylon and those that were left fled to Egypt. God had forsaken His people …
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