In reading these Scriptures and excerpts, we (hopefully) cannot help but ask ourselves questions like: What area of your life are you not handing over to God (like the rich ruler)? What idols and/or sin are you allowing to remain and slowly infiltrate your habits and ideas (like the nations surrounding the Promised Land)?…
Read MoreThe Israelites were hungry, homeless, and weary, and the Amalekite army sought to take advantage of their circumstances. But God would protect them from this enemy…
Read MoreBut deep down I knew God does not play cruel jokes. He had us read Butterfield’s book as a church for a purpose: because the world was about to suffer in ways it had never suffered before, at least on a global scale. Human connection was about to come under severe attack and God was prepping us to handle the aftermath…
Read MoreIf you will allow me a bit of liberty with this one I’d like to “update” this text so it’s easier to understand for the 21st century reader. I do not seek to alter the unchanging nature of God’s Word; I only want to show how we have fallen into the same trap that God’s people did when Isaiah prophesied to them…
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