Thoughts Cornelius In Acts 10, we are introduced to Cornelius, a Roman centurion, an officer in the Roman army. This was not a typical Roman, though. He was a devout believer in the God of the Jews, even though, being a Gentile, the average Jew would have very little to do with him. As a…
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Thoughts Who Is Habakkuk? There is a lot of conjecture on just who this prophet Habakkuk was. The fact is, we don’t have much information about him. The Jewish Rabbis have their ideas. Roman Catholicism has theirs, based on one of the books of the Apocrypha. What we do know is that this is a…
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Thoughts Heads Up Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon, the same King Solomon who wrote the book of Proverbs. Like Proverbs, Ecclesiastes is classified as a book of wisdom. But you will very quickly see that Solomon’s approach is much different here. I don’t want to give away too much right now, but I do…
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Thoughts As I write this on April 13, 2021 from my desk in Riverside, CA, we seem to be on the tail end of the COVID-19 restrictions in the state. Some states have already done away with restrictions, and a few never had them. California has been one of the most restrictive. From the beginning…
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Thoughts In these chapters we read of the reigns of Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham and Ahaz. Each of these kings were descendants of David, and as I have said in previous episodes, coming from a believing family does not mean that the following generation will follow God. The opposite is also true. Coming from a non-believing…
Read MoreThoughts In chapter 6, verses 4 and 5, Moses is telling the children of Israel the Great Commandment, the one that encompasses all the others. It’s the commandment that Jesus quoted when the Pharisees asked Him which was the greatest of all the commandments. 4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your…
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Thoughts James is a small book, but it’s packed with rich content. Too much, really, to talk about every point, so I’ll just touch on a couple points today, which are actually related. Hearing Is Not Enough At the end of chapter one, James, who is the half-brother of Jesus, makes the point that just…
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Thoughts Sometimes There Is A Cost I’ve mentioned several times that we should be bold and strong, and that we should follow the leading of the Holy Spirit when He tells us to speak up. Well, that’s what Stephen did in chapter seven of Acts, and he became the first Christian martyr. He spoke the…
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Thoughts Nahum means “comforter”. There is comfort for God’s people, to be sure. But for Nineveh, not so much. Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria, and the book of Nahum was written about a hundred years after God sent Jonah to Nineveh to warn them that unless they repented, God’s judgement would destroy them….
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Thoughts Mother To Son This chapter is a mother’s advice to her son. The son is King Lemuel, and I’d like to tell you about him, but scholars don’t know anything about him. There’s a fair amount of conjecture, but no facts. One thing that seems true is that there was no king of Judah…
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