“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it” — Abraham Lincoln.
What a wise saying! If only we all would follow it. We don’t want to wear our feelings on our sleeves so that if someone just looks at us cross-eyed, we become offended. We also need to be conscious of the …
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Leviticus 23 outlines the various feasts celebrated under the law, as well as events observed during that period. The feasts and events are broken down as follows:
The passover (v4-5)
The feast of unleavened bread (v6-8)
The sheaf of the firstfruits (v9-14)
The feast of weeks (v15-21)
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Introduction
2:1-10 – Yahweh hath done this;
2:11-19 – Jeremiah speaks to Jerusalem: thrown down and not pitied;
2:20-22 – Jerusalem speaks: prayer.
The first song of Lamentations introduces Jerusalem’s affliction and the sin that was the source of the problem. We find Je…
Jehoahaz: the favoured of Judah
Towards the end of the reign of Josiah, God ensured an intensity of prophetic work so that there were four contemporary prophets all simultaneously warning Judah of the judgment that was about to befall them.1 This was no accident.
Judah had stubbornly rejected …
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It was around AD90 when the Apostle John sent a letter (which we know as the third epistle of John) to Gaius. The ageing apostle opens his letter fondly, describing Gaius as well beloved and someone whom he truly loves.
He repeats the title “beloved” again in verse 2: “Beloved, I wish above…
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One of David’s final battles with the uncircumcised Philistines is described in 2 Samuel 5. He had just been anointed king at Hebron and the enemy seized that opportunity to strike quickly and remove him from his newly acquired throne: “When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David kin…
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In 2 Corinthians 11:21-33 the Apostle Paul enumerates his many trials and afflictions which he had suffered in his service of the Truth. He recalls the humiliating circumstances surrounding his escape from Damascus when he was let through a window and lowered down the wall in a basket. The occasion …
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by Jeff Deuble
In Christ before Creeds, Jeff Deuble recounts his own personal journey of discovery, from Trinitarian Pastor, to Unitarian Bible student. That journey involved intense Bible study, much soul searching, and a willingness to look again at many of his own long-standing beli…
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1It is difficult to imagine a more profound testimony to design than the delivery of a fully developed baby that, only nine months ago, was a single cell. The degree of regulatory control and informational complexity of the process that drives embryonic development is far beyond human comprehension….
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Questions
Who was changed into a pillar of salt?
What seas were the borders of the inheritance of the land of Canaan?
With all offerings, salt had to be offered (Lev 2:13; Mark 9:49). What offering explicitly mentions that it must be seasoned with salt?
What waters failed/were cut off w…
