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New Life
The Monday night before Easter, I casually asked my pastor husband what he would be preaching on the following Sunday. Although he usually has it all planned out by then, he said that he didn’t have anything special in mind at that point and asked me if I had any ideas. I thought for a moment, and then told him that the only thing that had come to mind was the expression new life. And, since I was busy watching my favorite television program at the time, I didn’t give it another thought for the remainder of the evening. But the next day, when I began wondering what new…
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The No-Named Nobility
Yesterday, while reading the first chapter of Daniel, I became intrigued at the thought of what happened to the other exiles who, like Daniel, had been carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. In this chapter, we are told that these exiles were members of… …the royal family and the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding, learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace (vv. 3-4)… …in short, they were the very best young men that could be found in all of Judah. And, because in the Hebrew language, the term “royal family” means “of the seed of the kingdom,”…
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Walking Lightly
I don’t know about you but the older I get, the darker the world seems to grow. This may be because the farther along I walk with God, the more discerning of the world and its ways I am becoming. Or it could be just another indication that the long-awaited day of Jesus’ return is rapidly approaching. Certainly, the conditions prevailing in our world today greatly resemble those described by Jesus in Matthew 24:4-8, when He answered His disciples’ request for a sign of His coming by saying… See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will…
