Putting God to the test
Christ challenges us to put God first and see what happens:
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt 6:33)
Seeking God first would result in the ‘adding’ of all the necessary things of li…
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In the times of Elisha there lived a remarkable man from the area of Baal-Shalisha. The district wasn’t always called by that name. It was originally known just as Shalisha and was noted as the very place where Saul went searching for his father’s lost asses (1 Sam 9:3-4). With Baal worship beco…
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I Have Commanded the Ravens to Feed Thee
Not only does God feed the birds of the field, He also used them to feed His servants. Elijah was sent on a dangerous mission to Israel that would result in a three-and-a-half-year famine upon the land, yet Elijah would be preserved while all Israel were in …
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually all aspects of life, culture and business. News reporting, both true and false, adds to the deluge of information and horror stories that choke our minds. The sheer scale of the problems are often described as “biblical” yet the Bible and its precepts…
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We are told very emphatically in the Scriptures what God loves and what He hates.
He hates idolatry (Deut 16:22). He hates those who love violence (Psa 11:5). He hates hypocrisy and untruthful worship (Isa 1:11-15; Amos 5:21). He hates it when we imagine evil in our hearts against our nei…
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“For he was a good man, and he was led with the Holy Spirit and with faith” Acts 11:24.
Threaded through the early chapters of Acts and almost hidden behind the scenes is a shadowy sketch of a relatively rarely studied disciple. He is a man whom we may initially consider obscure, un…
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