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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Let’s take a quick look at the end of the the last chapter of Acts. If you’ve been listening to the show for the last few weeks, what Paul quoted to the Jewish leaders should have sounded familiar. He quoted from the book of Isaiah, which we are reading on track one. To be specific,…
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Our reading was short today because the next chapter of Isaiah, chapter 36, sort of shifts gears and begins a different kind of writing. In our chapters today, chapter 34 talked about God’s judgment on the nations. It is severe because of their defiance of God. Chapter 35 shows what can happen when the nations…
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Did you ever look at someone famous who is supremely talented, but is not a believer and think, “Just think of the impact they could have if they would live their life for the Lord?” I have, many times. I was born just about the same time as rock & roll. I remember doo wap…
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Amidst the prophecies of judgment in much of the book of Isaiah, chapter 12 brings a ray of hope. The prophet tells us that a righteous king is coming. And as we have seen in many previous books in the Bible, when a righteous king is on the throne, God not only blesses the land…
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Let’s think for a moment about the conspiracy to kill Paul that we read about in chapter 23, verses 12 through 22. We read that it was a group of Jews, and they bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. A group of Jews who felt that…
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Sometimes prophecy reads like today’s news, doesn’t it? Let me read chapter 30, verses 8-11 again: 8Now go and write down these words. Write them in a book. They will stand until the end of time as a witness 9 that these people are stubborn rebels who refuse to pay attention to the lord’s instructions….
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Ever notice how we try to tell God how things should go? Oh, we usually do it in very spiritual and respectful ways, but we do do it. Here’s an example. “Oh God, in Jesus’ name we ask that you heal Aunt Bertha.” “Oh God, please give that job I interviewed for. I know I…
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