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Bible in 90 days – Day 18 – Judges 3-15 Judges 6:15-16 ESV “And [Gideon] said to [the angel] ‘Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 16 – Joshua 1-14 Joshua 11:22 ESV “There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel.” The feared giants, descendants of the Nephilim, the very people that Israel pointed at to say “taking the promised land is impossible!” – all gone, just as […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 11 – Numbers 9-21 Numbers 14:9-10 – Caleb and Joshua to Israel after spying out the promised land: “Do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land… …Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones.” Caleb saw the situation through eyes […]
God's chosen people, Israel, are defined not by ethnicity but by faith in God's revelation, as demonstrated through the potter and clay analogy from Isaiah 29. Many reject God's wisdom in favor of hum
One of the core urgings of the scripture is that we trust God’s promises. But that can be difficult for some of us who feel that God has failed to come through from time to time. One reason for this feeling of God having failed is because we have been claiming as a promise, something God […]
Something I’ve been reflecting on recently. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” – Hebrews 11:1 Faith is not a thing that can be placed. It is not a commodity that we possess, like so many chips at a casino, to place on a specific number in […]
We know that even in the Old Testament, people were justified before God by their faith, not adherence to the Law. (Though, those in the OT days who had faith desired to keep God’s law!) I get asked occasionally, “What did faith look like in the Old Testament? If they didn’t have Christ, what did […]