Month: May 2024
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The Book of Job
The first five verses of Job offer us insight into the purpose behind the book. Job is presented as an exceedingly righteous man, one who was “blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1, ESV). Almost to match his moral excellence, he is wealthy and prosperous, blessed materially and…
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Finding Meaning in Spirituality
The human experience only makes sense when you include in your search for purpose the One Who is not “under the sun.” Ecclesiastes reminds us, especially in our materialistic and sensually driven time, that the world is senseless when we eliminate God from the equation. Temporal life can only offer pseudo-replacements that leave us empty…
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David’s Song of Mourning for Saul and Jonathan
17 Then David sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan, 18 and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the mourning song of the bow; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. 19 “[a]Your beauty, Israel, is [b]slaughtered on your high places!How the mighty have fallen!20 Tell it not in Gath,Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,Or the daughters of the…
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