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November 11, 2009 01:35 PM EST --
In times past, God spoke in fragmentary and varied ways to our fathers through the prophets; in this, the final age, he has spoken to us through his Son, whom he has made heir of all things and through . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:48 AM EST --
Good and upright is the Lord; thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, he teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the Lord are kindness and constancy toward those . . .
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October 28, 2009 11:35 AM EDT --
His mercy is from age to age on those who fear him. Luke 1: 50
Does God, from age to age, have mercy on those who fear him?
I’m looking back over history. Way back over the murky . . .
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September 23, 2009 09:36 AM EDT --
Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? Or who may stand in his holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean who desires not what is vain, nor swears deceitfully to his . . .
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September 08, 2009 09:46 AM EDT --
I will treat of the mighty works of the Lord; O God, I will tell of your singular justice. O God, you have taught me from my youth, and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds ; Ps 72: . . .
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September 07, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
Let not the foreigner say, when he would join himself to the Lord, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”; Nor let the eunuch say, “See, I am a dry tree.” For . . .
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September 03, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted, to the tyrannical city! She hears no voice, accepts no correction: In the Lord she has not trusted, to her God she has not drawn near. Zeph 3:1-2
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August 31, 2009 09:33 AM EDT --
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release . . .
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July 07, 2009 09:15 AM EDT --
One day Jesus was teaching, and the power of the Lord made him heal. Lk 5: 17
Before I ponder how Luke and the people of his age might have linked sin and forgiveness to God, I first want to enter . . .
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May 30, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
For if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Faith in the heart leads to justification, confession . . .
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May 29, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel . . .
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May 22, 2009 07:19 AM EDT --
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, with whom he drank. Under the influence of the wine, he ordered the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, . . .
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March 24, 2009 12:31 PM EDT --
In the temple precincts he came upon people engaged in selling oxen, sheep and doves, and others seated changing coins. He made a [kind of] whip of chords and drove sheep and oxen alike out of . . .
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March 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
He told them a parable on the necessity of praying always and not losing heart: “Once there was a judge in a certain city who respected neither God nor man. A widow in that city kept coming to . . .
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March 06, 2009 11:50 AM EST --
Keep your eyes open for you know not the day or the hour. Mt 25:13
Would Jesus have said such a thing? Did Jesus believe in judgement? And what, at any rate, does it say about God? . . .
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February 25, 2009 01:36 PM EST --
I will praise the name of God in song and I will glorify him with thanksgiving; this will please the Lord more than oxen. Ps 69:31-32.
The psalmist opens a question. The psalmist being an anonymous . . .
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February 23, 2009 12:33 PM EST --
we thank God constantly that in receiving his message from us you took it, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God at work within you who believe 1 Thes 2:13
The word of God at . . .
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February 21, 2009 03:26 PM EST --
ten men of every nationality, speaking different tongues, shall take hold, yes, take hold of every Jew by the edge of his garment and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” . . .
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February 19, 2009 11:56 AM EST --
Consider your ways! You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not been exhilarated; have clothed yourselves, but not . . .
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January 30, 2009 08:42 PM EST --
You will be hated by all on account of me. Mt 10:22.
Why will all hate me because of Jesus? I am thinking this is not the sort of thing Jesus would say. Rather, to understand why we find . . .
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