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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…
What I do to you, I do to me. To love you is to love myself.
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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…
I don’t equate my value before my Redeemer according to my salary.
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Searching for Utopia over the decades has been exhausting. And disappointing. It is only recently I have come to understand why. In the beginning, Adam and Eve walked in Eden with God, their Creator. It was a perfect place. Once banned from there, they had to toil a land filled with…
Reading through the Psalms of Asaph the seer, music leader, writer and poet, he passed down his skills to many generations, inspiring an immeasurable amount of people.
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Asaph began to understand that God’s kingdom that was coming down was not through Solomon or his temple; this wasn’t it! For it was obvious that it could not be; it was destroyed. The Kingdom of God and the Messiah were yet to come and they would come through David’s seed,…
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Asaph would see Solomon become jaded in his later years. He would see the king become full of want and chase after life’s luxuries. He would see the king succumb to the desires of evil men, partner with them, take their daughters for wives, build his kingdom and fall into idolatry.…
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As a musician, over the past couple of years I have taken a keen interest on David and the Psalms. Did you know that all of the people involved in music in the courts and service of King David were from the tribe of Levi? This includes the chief musician under…
Williams upset by Osaka, but not as much as by umpire.
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Destiny. Is there such a thing? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines destiny as, “a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency.” This can be classified as fate, as well. Are fate and destiny, then, a biblical concept? The answer is complicated, really. For me, fate has…
Yahweh cares more about our faith than our goodness.
