This passage in Hebrews flat out tells us that the Bible is a living document; it discerns our thoughts and the intent of our hearts. God uses Scripture to communicate with us. Every time I read the Bible, I glean something new, something that speaks to me personally. If you want to experience the word
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Someone asked on social media, “When you get to Heaven, what’s the one burning question you’ll ask Jesus?” So many of us responded that we ask our questions now, and He answers. Why wait? The Bible is God’s living word. He speaks to us through it. Jesus’ death and resurrection tore the veil so we
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John Steinbeck wrote a novel in 1961 titled, The Winter of our Discontent. The basis of the book is the “moral decline” within the U.S. This was in the 60s. I imagine today, this book would be even more relevant. Has anyone read it? Amazon included the top three sentences that Kindle users highlighted in
Today, let’s pour out our hearts for those people who are so discontent with their lives, with the world, that they contemplate suicide. It’s like they’ve fallen into an empty well. There are no apparent means of escape, so they just sit in the mud and muck and sink deeper and deeper into their hole.
It’s easy to be discontent, especially when everything around you seems to be falling apart. We get depressed, bitter. Maybe we stop being able to see the good. We can’t see the silver lining. But there are other people…people who have lost everything; people who have only a few months to live who we would
I know so many people who are in a “winter of discontent.” They seem to complain about everything and be happy about nothing. It makes for a miserable existence. When I think of the word “discontent” I immediately think of the first line from Richard III (by William Shakespeare): “Now is the winter of our
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Bathsheba is listed in the lineage of Jesus, not by name, but as “her who had been the wife of Uriah.” We don’t know why. Maybe Matthew was making a statement about King David. I don’t know. What I do know is that women were treated like property back then. The biblical account of Bathsheba’s
When I think of Ruth, I think of loyalty and faithfulness. She gave up everything to accompany her mother-in-law home to the land of Judah. Ruth gave up her homeland, family, friends, neighbors, and religion to travel to a land where she would stand out as being “different;” a land and a people she knew