when worship makes God sick
Isaiah 1 The Israelites are continuing their worship in the temple, but there is so much wickedness in their lives that the worship makes God sick. He threatens to come as a consuming fire and destroy...
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Isaiah 2 The prophet has good news and bad news. First, the good news. The light of the LORD will some day bring peace between the nations, ending the need for swords and spears. The prophet calls on...
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Isaiah 5 Israel is portrayed as a vineyard, and the prophet decries the fact that the vineyard produced the wrong crop: wild grapes. They rebelled against the master’s intentions. He “looked for...
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Psalm 101 David’s ten “I will’s” here reflect a commitment to integrity and foreshadow the ministry of Christ. He will sing to the LORD (1) He will ponder the blameless way (2) He will walk with...
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Psalm 141 The temptation to avoid danger by falling in with the schemers is addressed here. David wanted protection, but he would rather be put in danger himself than take the easy way out by becoming...
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Amos 4 The fat cows of Bashan stand as a symbol of a people who have chosen to satisfy self above all else. Even their religious practices are a means of demonstrating their selfishness. The only...
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Proverbs 30:1-31:9 Agur’s bucket list is simple. Hew does not ask for a bunch of stuff because he knows that stuff does not satisfy. He asks for character that lives above reproach. To be honest and...
View Articlean unappreciated truth
Jeremiah 20 Jeremiah knew what it was like to proclaim the word of the LORD among a people who have rejected it. Because he spoke an unappreciated truth, he was shamefully and violently treated by the...
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Jeremiah 21 Jeremiah was commissioned by king Zedekiah to inquire of the LORD for his nation. They wanted him to ask God to intervene and prevent the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. But the...
View Articletouring the new temple
Ezekiel 40 In a previous vision, Ezekiel had seen the corruption of his people by touring the temple. Now, Ezekiel is given a tour of a new temple, and only sees beauty, order, and magnificence. The...
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Genesis 14:10 -24 10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the pits, and the rest escaped to the hill country. 11 So the enemy...
View ArticleThe Sky Kingdom or stuff?
Matthew 6:19-24 19 “Do not waste your time setting aside valuables for yourselves here on the land, where moth and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them, 20 but invest your...
View Articleworkers need both wisdom and innocence
Matthew 10:12-16 12 As you enter the house, greet it. 13 And if the house is worthy, let your blessing of peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your blessing of peace return to you. 14 And...
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Matthew 11:7-15 7 While they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 8 What then did you go out to...
View Articlerevenge of the “holy woman”
Genesis 38:11-30 11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”- for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar...
View Articledemonstrating his faithfulness
Genesis 46:26 – 34 26 All the souls coming from Jacob who came into Egypt, who came from his own body, not counting Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 27 And the sons of Joseph, who...
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Genesis 47:1-12 1 So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of...
View Articlesaving Egypt for Pharaoh
Genesis 47:13-26 13 There was no food in all the land, for the famine was very brutal, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine. 14 And Joseph collected all...
View Articlethe whole package
Matthew 22:23-33 23 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his...
View Articlethe fig tree generation
Matthew 24:32-35 . 32 “From the fig tree learn this lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So also, when you see all these things, you...
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