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Often when I hear people wanting to destroy statues of historical figures and burn books of authors who mentioned something they considered wrong, even though these men and women also did good things and are part of our history, I wonder what they would do with the Hebrew Bible if they found out that all the men and women mentioned in the Hebrew Bible arguably did something wrong, such as King David’s adultery. The only totally innocent good man in the Hebrew Bible is Job, and that story according to many rabbis and scholars is just a parable. By pointing out the wrongs, the Torah is telling us that the biblical heroes were humans like us. The Bible does not expect any human to nev
Devotional Text: Luke 7:11-17
Lately, weâve been looking at the ways God has the power and authority to change the laws of nature â from the prophets in 1 and 2 Kings found in the Old Testament, to Jesus in the New Testament Gospels turning water into wine and commanding a stormy sea to be still.
Today, I am continuing with the Gospels by talking about two instances in the New Testament where Jesus brought someone back to life. This was not resurrection â as in a transformed body with new eternal life â but a reviving, bringing back to life someone who had died.
Devotional Text: James 5:17-18
âI will move heaven and earthâ is a common phrase meaning that a person will use all his or her resources in trying their hardest to get a job done.
To look at this phrase literally, however, we have to recognize that reversing the laws of nature brings us to the only one who can actually move both the heavens and the earth, and that person is our God.
In showing Godâs authority over earth and sky, today Iâd like to begin with a couple of stories from the Old Testament found in 1 and 2 Kings, beginning with the story of King Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:1-11.
Mark is one of the most famous passages of
The Bible that has come to be known as “the lesson of the widow’s mite”. It is about a poor widow who offered two small copper coins in a church’s offering, while people with more money around her made much larger offerings.
When
Jerusalem, he said (according to
Luke):
“Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
Widow’s Mite Coin
Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here.
The Scriptures we are studying today were spontaneously chosen only after I sat down to write this study. Since last Monday, I had every intention of writing about Psalm 46 and spent time researching the meaning of that magnificent “song” for these troubled times. Such a last-minute switch-out has never happened in the 42 previous volumes. Thus, my interpretation is that I am “supposed” to write about this famous phrase of scripture, which happens to be a political cliché, usually attributed to Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.