Posts Tagged ‘Christian’
Going Back on Your Upbringing
Lamentations 4:5, “… they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.” This describes the extremes one person can go to in life…from being clothed in scarlet to hugging a dunghill. This describes a blown life. It tells of a person who once loved the fragrance of holiness, but now is more comfortable filling his…
Read MoreThe Lord Sent the Word
Psalm 18:30, “… the word of the LORD is tried: …” The questions are: Who has tried the Word of the Lord? Under what circumstances? What were the results? In Creation We see God the Father trying His Word in creation. He tried it on the darkness and the darkness became light. He tried it on…
Read MoreHow Are We Doing?
2 Kings 7:9 “… We do not well: …” This Old Testament story in 2 Kings 7 could be duplicated, in part, in the New Testament story in Luke 10 where the priest and the Levite observed the condition of a wounded man in a ditch and passed by on the other side. They did…
Read MoreA Little Can Make a Big Difference
Small things can make a big difference, this is true in the negative as well as the positive. Examples of the negative are the little foxes that spoil the vines (Song of Solomon 2:15) and the dead flies in the ointment (Ecclesiastes 10:1). However, I want to approach this from the positive. What is smaller…
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