Thoughts In today’s comments I’d like to address chapter 5, verses 1 through 6. Who Should Be the Shepherd? Peter tells the older members to be shepherds to God’s flock from a sincere desire and not for money, and do so by providing a good example, not by lording it over them. And then he…
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Thoughts We see the beginning of Paul’s first missionary journey in chapter 13. It’s important to note that they did not begin this journey based on their own ideas. They were called by the Holy Spirit to this work. And then, the church at Antioch fasted, prayed, laid hands on them and sent them on…
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Thoughts The Minor Prophets There were twelve Minor Prophets. The first nine prophesied before Judah was taken to Babylon in captivity, or pre-exile. Haggai is the first of the remaining three Minor Prophets who came after the seventy year exile. The Reconstruction Begins…Sort Of Cyrus King of Persia allowed the exiled Jews to return to…
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Thoughts Solomon begins chapter five with good advice. When coming to the house of God, it’s better to listen than to run your mouth (as my dad would say). Actually, that’s good advice in most situations, don’t you think? You can’t learn much when you’re speaking. But when coming before the Lord, listening will always…
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Thoughts I’ve mentioned GotQuestions.org a few times in the past. It is a really good source of biblical information, and I highly recommend it. I found the following concise description on the Psalms that are called “The Songs of Ascent” there, and I’d like to share it with you now. Here’s a link to see…
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Thoughts A Very Evil King In chapter 33, we read about Manasseh, a very evil king who ruled for fifty-five years. This tells us that just because something lasts a long time does not mean that God’s blessing is on it. The chapter very clearly outlines the sins of Manasseh, and the judgement that he…
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Thoughts 12“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I…
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Thoughts Who’s First? In chapter 1, Peter called the people to holy living. He told them not to slip back into their old ways of living to satisfy their own desires. And then in chapter 2 when talking to slaves he said that they should submit to their masters with all respect. Not just when…
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Thoughts Which James Is This? In verse one of chapter 12 we read that King Herod had arrested some of the Christians in order to persecute them. And in verse two we read that Herod had James, the brother of John put to death with the sword. That’s all that is said about James. The…
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Thoughts Once More Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria. It is first mentioned all the way back in Genesis, chapter 10, and then it is not mentioned again until the book of Jonah. Nineveh was large, both in area and population. Because of its geographic location on the Tigris river, it was a bustling…
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