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The Big Squeeze
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me; fighting all day long he oppresses me. Psalm 56:1 NASB He oppresses me – Are you oppressed? Before you say, “Not at all,” consider the Hebrew word lahats. It is a picture of being squeezed into a space too small to fit. Balaam’s…
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Washing the Dishes
He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8 NASB Wipe tears away – The verb maha(h) occurs thirty-tree times in the Tanakh. It is…
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Feeling Commandments
and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish…
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The Gray Life
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10 ESV Everlasting joy – “Joy is fundamental to human existence and well-being, yet it is an elusive phenomenon that…
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Shadow World
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. John 3:19 NASB Darkness – So you claim to walk in the light? You know the witness of the Spirit, the testimony of the Word, the truth of the…
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Good Enough
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. John 3:19 NASB Evil – When you read this verse in John’s account, what comes to mind? Do you see a great cosmic battle between good and evil? Do…
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Our Friends in Lima, Peru
You and I, this whole community, have some friends in Lima. You’ve probably never met them, but they are there, trying their best to carry out God’s word in a city that is marginally Catholic and mostly Babylonian. I thought you might enjoy seeing some pictures of the churches where I taught. One was a converted…
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The View from 35,000 Feet
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— Hebrews 11:32 ESV What more – Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, oh, and you might as well throw in all the rest mentioned here including the prophets. Yes, don’t forget…
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Determined to Know
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? Job 31:1 ESV Gaze – Maybe this verse is just for men. Maybe. In its simplest rendition, it declares Job’s promise not to determine to know. It isn’t that Job says he will never look at an appealing woman….
