Tag: Bible
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Is God An Egotistical Tyrant?
God demands worship. That can be a challenging statement for those who have struggled with their faith or were not raised in a God-fearing home. To be clear, God, by definition, is a being worthy of praise and worship. How can a being demand worship and not be self-absorbed or egotistical? I briefly addressed this…
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What Must You Do To Be Lost?
We don’t typically list this, but taking a survey seems helpful. Often, we think it is much harder to be saved than lost… That may not be accurate. Consider: There are many things one would have to do to be lost. You would have to reject God’s existence – Rom. 1:20 — Psa. 19:1-4 You…
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To the Single Parent…
I don’t know why you’re single. Maybe you are divorced (Scriptural or un-scriptural), or maybe you are married but spiritually single (meaning you are raising your children with no other spiritual helper in the home). This is one of the toughest positions, and few can sympathize with you because few have been there. People in…
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Busy, Busy, Busy
Are you in a hurry? Are you rushing? Last week was it like that? Will it be like that this week? Does next week sound a lot like that, too? Two questions: Why are you so busy? With what are you so busy? As a preacher friend accurately observed, “We have become so busy with…
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The Interpretation Circle
Hermeneutics is not a dinner table term but is part of everyday life. It is the process of interpretation, usually of Biblical text, but it is part of every area of study. The sciences, legal system, and philosophy employ hermeneutics. The hermeneutical circle looks at the parts of the information and the whole body of…
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The Goodness of God
3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:3–4) There is…
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The Danger of Daily Bible Reading
There is a great, severe, and terrible danger to reading the Bible regularly. There is no question that this is the case. There is no doubt that such is the reality of the effort and time spent therein. This danger is a special kind, unlike any other in the world. Regularly reading the Bible is…
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Hosea’s Message
In Hosea 1:2 the prophet was instructed to take a wife of harlotry, and this was a vivid reflection of the relationship between God and His unfaithful people. They had committed harlotry with the false gods of the land and so Gomer would be a wife of harlotry for Hosea. Each of their three children…
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Challenges to Interpretation
Take Isaiah 49:1-6 as an example: Isaiah 49:1–6 (ESV) 1 Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. 2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he…
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