I hope you all had an enjoyable Independence Day this past Wednesday when most of us celebrated our independence from Great Britain. As most Americans do, we spent it with family and friends around a pool. Probably many of you did …
The story of Ebed-Melech, Zedekiah and Jeremiah, recorded in Jeremiah 37-39, is more than a historical narrative of events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians. As we saw in Act 1, it presents an example of the reciprocal …
Every culture creates and passes on bits of common wisdom. These sayings—whether they are called proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, or even saws—concentrate prudent thought and behavior into witty or picturesque phrases …
(10) "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: "Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"" (11) Say to them: "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?"
The Old Testament was written without punctuation of any kind, and in fact, punctuation was not added until about 1,200 years after Ezekiel wrote this. As God's answer to the question of verse 10, verse 11 would read better if a period …
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As the virulent and violent secular humanism spreads throughout Western civilization, the highest ideal has become the paramount "My Identity." Identity is the new sovereign, and it has the final say. Achievement and aptitude are commonly trumped by Identities such as skin color, nation of origin, gender, or even sexual "orientation" (defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition as "a tendency of thought; a general inclination"). The other element of this destructive notion of sovereign Identity is oppression — the Identity Groups deserve different …
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