Posts Tagged With: Babylon

“And Not a Day Before…”

I prepared this PODCAST for you.

Little did I know how much it would mean to me.

Get ready to get encouraged.

I sure am!

Thank you for listening, and for sharing this message!!!

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God bless you richly as you listen.

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Praise in the Midst of a Pandemic

As you will hear in this PODCAST, Habakkuk’s psalm of praise fits our current circumstances as perfectly as they fit his. A more timely prayer could not be offered.

Want to know how to pray during a pandemic? Here’s a prayer-clinic, courtesy of Habakkuk, and of Paul who quoted him.

Enjoy!!!

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God bless you richly as you listen.

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What in the World is God Doing in Our World? He is Doing THIS!!!

God is on the move.

In this PODCAST, you will hear in just what direction, and with what purpose, God is moving.

You’ll also discover His method to this incredible madness which we are all enduring, as well your purpose during these amazing days.

Be encouraged, my friends. Our brightest days are about to dawn!

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God bless you richly as you listen.

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A Minor Prophet with a Major Message

If you will permit me to quote myself, “It is today as it was then.”

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST: Boy, is it ever today as it was then. All courtesy of the Apostle Paul.

May God use the words of an ancient Prophet to elevate your soul, as they have my own.

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God bless you richly as you listen.

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“Wonderful Joy Ahead!”

As you will hear in this PODCAST, how ironic that Peter should invoke this image, and we discuss it, on the evening of the Winter Solstice, 2019.

As we bring the lovely little letter called 1 Peter to a close, you are in for copious amounts of much-needed encouragement.

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God bless you richly as you listen.

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“Render Unto Caesar…”

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, it’s always been a delicate and debatable dance — a Committed Christ-Follower’s relationship to the government.

This tension forms a theme that meanders throughout the pages of the Old Testament. It spills over into the Gospels and Acts. It’s certainly mentioned in several epistles, as it is here in 1 Peter.

Fortunately for us, the Bible is quite clear, concise, and unambiguous on this topic.

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May these words, humbly offered, be a blessing to and in your life.

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“The God of All Comfort”

It is the single saddest day on the Jewish calendar.

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, that statement, purposely given with the present tense “is,” is true today.

It was equally true for Peter’s original Jewish readers.

One day each year, indelibly imprinted on the collective psyches of our Jewish friends then and now.

“It is today as it was then.”

A day which reads in English, “the ninth day of the month of Av” (usually around our month of August).

In Hebrew it is called, Tisha B’Av.

If we don’t understand what this day is all about, we will not understand what the closing verses of 1 Peter 1 are all about. For Peter’s original readers. And for us!

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God bless you richly as you listen.

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A Matter of Interpretation

This is going to be fun, and oh-so-instructive.

This is the kind of a lesson I LOVE to teach.

Did you realize that in Matthew 5:18, Jesus made one of the single most dramatic, declarative statements He would ever make?

In one sweeping sentence that we explained at length last week, Jesus affirmed the Bible — every book, chapter, verse, word, letter — as absolute truth.

Through the process of Revelation, whereby God revealed Truth to His writers, and the process of Inspiration, whereby God guided His writers to write down that Truth w/o error, we now hold in our hands a precious book that 2 Timothy 3:16 (CEV) rightly calls “God’s Word.”

Revelation. Inspiration. In this PODCAST, we consider together a matter of Interpretation. How to understand the Bible… properly.

#WhatDoesItMean??? 

Because the sad fact is this: By stringing a few unrelated verses together, people can literally make the Bible say anything they want it to say. Anything! And they do.

We.Do.Not. We have far too much respect for the Bible to play fast and loose with its divinely inspired text.

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HAPPY LISTENING!

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