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Bible Study: Mark: Don’t Give Up On Him!

Maybe you’re giving up on someone who only needs a little encouragement or on someone who needs a good mentor and role model. Be that role model!

Daily Living: Guest Post: Living and Loving Like Jesus in 2019

“One of the best wedding gifts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, ‘Here’s to helping you discover what you’re really like!'” Ouch!!!

Lifestyle / Religion

Daily Living: Of Love

Agape love, the love of God, is unconditional.

Religion

Holidays: Top Ten Christmas Carols and Their History

Originally posted on SamSword:
For millennia, people have celebrated the Winter Solstice, and Christians have celebrated the coming of their King by singing Christmas songs. Born on the plains in a stable in Bethlehem, God came down in the most vulnerable form possible: a babe. This was so remarkable and unexpected that God’s own chosen…

Religion

Bible Trivia: How Many Marys are in the Bible?

Originally posted on SamSword:
One of the most interesting aspects of Spain this time of year, the Yuletide, is looking up the variety of Belenes, or little model Bethlehems. It stretches the idea of a manger scene. You can find them in shop windows, churches, town halls and little booths scattered around the cities. The…

Holidays: 8 Facts About Angels

Originally posted on SamSword:
? While I am no angelologist (yes, there is such a thing), I was thinking of angels over the past couple of days and their relation to Christmas. They are sung of often in Christmas Carols like “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” and “Angels We Have Heard On High.” They feature…

Sephardim

Originally posted on SamSword:
The story goes like this. Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem and devastates the tiny nation of Israel. The people flee. Many from the house of King David land in Iberia. They establish for themselves a life and begin to blend with the others who found their way to this historic peninsula. The Arabs,…

Perfect Theology: Entertaining Angels?

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For decades I have enjoyed toying with the idea that those mysterious, invisible, multi-dimensional beings called angels look upon men with curiosity. I have wide-eyed wonder to think that perhaps I have entertained them without knowing it. I speak here specifically of that verse in Hebrews 13:2. But what is this…

Holidays: The First Thanksgiving

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With Thanksgiving approaching, many of us grow nostalgic. Images of Thanksgivings past come to the forefront. Maybe we think of the Macy’s parade, of turkey dinner, or even sitting around with the men watching the Dallas Cowboys play the Washington Redskins. Maybe we had special times with family and loved ones. Time off…

Religion: Understanding the Ark of the Covenant: Why Did God Strike Uzzah Dead? Part 1

Originally posted on SamSword:
All throughout the Word of God there are great mysteries. When I was fourteen years old, I dedicated my life to Jesus and to studying His Word at His feet. At seventeen, I spent a brief time in great confusion and dismay, after reading through the Bible nearly three times. I…

Daily Living: Of Unity

What I do to you, I do to me. To love you is to love myself.

Religion: Jehu and the Seventy Sons of Ahab

Originally posted on SamSword:
I was reading recently in the book of I and II Kings and had an epiphany. Toward the end of chapter 10 in the second book, I came to an abrupt halt when I read about the slaughter of the 70 sons of Ahab, his confidants, friends and even acquaintances. Anyone…