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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Thoughts These chapters, while not entirely inspiring, seem to be a little less hopeless sounding than the first two, don’t you think? There’s a lot here to think about, but in our limited time, I’d like to focus for just a moment on chapter four. Two Are Better Than One Halfway through the chapter, Solomon…
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Thoughts While some scholars believe that the author of Psalm 127 is David, writing to Solomon, most scholars believe that this Psalm was written by Solomon. He was the son of King David, and succeeded David to the throne. Solomon is known for many things, but he is most noted for being the wisest man…
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Thoughts Hezekiah was a remarkable king, wasn’t he? What A King! His father was Ahaz, who reigned before him, and he was one of the most evil kings of Judah. If you’ve been listening along, no doubt you remember him and the heinous things he did, including the sacrifice of his own children. That Hezekiah…
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Thoughts One More Time As we often read here in Deuteronomy and other places in the Old Testament, God tells the people what He will do, and then He reminds them many times. He tells them what He did, and then He reminds them what He did, many times. Why does He do that? Why…
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Thoughts Curb It James wrote quite a lot about how powerful the tongue is. He was referring to the actual spoken word, of course. But I think it would be safe here in the 21st century to expand the thought to what we say on the internet. On Facebook, Twitter and any other of the…
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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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