Chapter 9 has some language in it that causes difficulty for some people. Did it get your attention? Here it is again. Paul was quoting Malachi 1:2-3. He said, “As the Scriptures say, ‘I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.’” What? God hated Esau? What’s up with that? Well, as it turns out, this type…
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So who is this Cyrus we read about in chapter 45? You might be surprised to learn that he was a Mede, not a Jew. Yet God called him to make Israel free. Isn’t it interesting that God does not restrict His use of people to only the children of Israel? As He said so…
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Do you like baseball? I love baseball. Probably because my grandpa loved it. I remember sitting on my grandpa’s lap as he sat in his recliner, watching the Dodgers shortly after they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Of course, I was too young to know that they were new to LA, and to me…
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In chapter 44, verses 9 through 20 we saw how silly it is for men to create a god out of a block of wood. I think most listening would agree. One of the things the fool in the passage does is to pray to the idol he created, “You are my god, save me!”…
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Today I’d like to turn over the commentary to one of history’s greatest preachers. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born in 1834 and went to his reward in 1892. He was a prolific writer, as well as a gifted preacher. I hope you enjoy today’s little theater of the mind.
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In Matthew 12:17 we’re told that Isaiah 42 is about the Messiah. After reading the chapter I’m sure you’re not surprised. As you probably know, the Old Testament is replete with Messianic prophecies. The Jews for Jesus website lists 365 of them, and of those 365 prophecies, 132 are in the book of Isaiah. The…
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Do you have a favorite place? Someplace on the planet that you think about when you wish you could just get away from it all? Someplace where you are both relaxed and excited at the same time? For me, that place is a little campsite in the Yosemite wilderness. It’s a place nestled in where…
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I am so happy that God saw fit to include the contents of chapter 38 in the Bible. Here is this good king Hezekiah, whom God had given a victory over the proud and arrogant king Sennacherib. He’s in the prime of a well lived life, and he falls deathly sick. And the Lord sent…
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If you and I are friends, and I (with no malice intended) say something that hurts your feelings, but you don’t tell me that I hurt you, am I at fault? Let’s say that I really like, oh I don’t know…Burl Ives. Remember him? He was a singer many years ago. He narrated that animated…
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You know that there’s no such thing as a self made man, right? Whatever heights a person ascends to, God enabled. Nothing comes into our lives but that He either allows them or causes them. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that God causes every calamity that happens to people. We do…
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