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Fences and Ladders

If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. Deuteronomy 28:1 NIV Carefully follow – Just how rigid are God’s commandments?  How carefully must we follow each and every one?  Is there wiggle room or are they absolute…
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Where’s Waldo

The journey so far: I left Parma on 9 April to travel to Yokohama, Japan, and lecture on a cruise ship for a month.  On that journey I went to: Shimizu Osaka Kochi Ishigaki Keelung Kaohsiung Hong Kong Nha Trang Ho Chi Minh City Singapore Port Klang Penang Phuket Sabang Colombo Cochin Mangalore Mormugao Goa…
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Verbs and Paradigms

Now the hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”  Ezekiel 3:22  NASB He said – According to some researchers, the phrase “God said” or its equivalent is used 1900 times in the Bible.  When you think about it,…
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Group Consciousness

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,  2 Timothy 3:16 Scripture – “But that’s how you read it, not how I read it.”  Ever heard that complaint?  Engage in virtually any controversial theological argument and somewhere along the way you’re bound to encounter the “this is what it…
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Written?

“Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all the things that are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”  Luke 24:44 NASB Spoke – Yeshua followed the teaching technique of the rabbis.  He never…
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A Bridge Too Far (2)

You have removed lover and friend far from me; my acquaintances are in a hiding place.  Psalm 88:18  NASB  You have removed – A short excursus into enemy territory followed by an immediate return to the major theme: God is sovereign.  This poem describes whatever happens as under God’s control and direction.  Therefore, even if “they”…
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