The parable of the leaven hidden in the meal and the parable of the treasure hidden in the field show two sides of the same coin. The hidden treasure serves as the God-given solution to the corrupting leaven. Jesus never intended the …
Last month, we looked at Karl Jasper’s concept of an Axial Period in history, spanning roughly 800-200 BC. He viewed it as an unstable age characterized by a sea change in ideas as people abandoned old, long-standing ideas in philosophy …
God indeed wants His people to live an abundant life, but He is not in the habit of just giving us everything we desire. He is far more concerned about our spiritual development, and He readily gives spiritual blessings to that end. God …
(31) "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— (32) not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. (33) But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. (34) No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD," for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
(See also Ezekiel 37:26; Jeremiah 50:5, 20) Jeremiah 31:31-34 provides an encouraging conclusion to the saga of Israel and Judah once they have repented and returned to the land. These verses, quoted in Hebrews 8:8-12 and 10:16-17, show …
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For many years, every weekday at 8:50 AM, Charlotte's WBT played "A Moment of Hope," an attempt by a prominent local preacher to inspire, encourage, and benefit the citizens of Charlotte. I would listen to it most days as I prepared for work. Many of these two-minute offerings dripped with Protestant saccharin, requiring some effort to endure them. One morning, however, I could listen for only the first fifteen seconds before turning the radio off in disgust. The preacher began (my paraphrase): I've really noticed lately how external our society is. We care so much about how we look and …
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