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Hebrews 10:24-25
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. HEB.10.24-25
The Samaritan Woman
The Samaritan Woman Perhaps in order to avoid the respectable townswomen who filled their water jars at sunrise and sunset, “the Samaritan woman” came to the well at noon, the hottest hour of the day. This immoral woman, who had five husbands, now lived with a man who was notRead More …
John 4:1-26
1Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now he had to go throughRead More …
Manna From Heaven
Manna From Heaven The situation looked hopeless. The 2.5 million Israelites desperately needed food and water. When God didn’t provide for the Israelites in the way they expected, they became angry and accused God of taking them into the wilderness to starve them to death. But they failed to recognizeRead More …
Exodus 16:3-4
3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” 4 Then theRead More …
Matthew 19:4-6
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longerRead More …
What Marriage is Meant For
What Marriage is Meant For Marriage is the oldest institution on earth. It precedes any other, including government, commerce, academia, the arts, or the military. Initiated in the opening pages of Genesis, it is civilization’s bedrock—God-created and God-ordained bedrock. First of all, it was a strategic institution. The first coupleRead More …
Proverbs 22:1
1A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. PRO.22.1
Rewards, Not Promises
Rewards, Not Promises Proverbs often holds out the stick and the carrot to motivate people to the best type of behavior and attitudes. Those actions it characterizes as wise often are accompanied by reward, and those it characterizes as foolish are said to result in punishment. Indeed, the ultimate rewardRead More …
Judges 2:1-4
1The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, 2 and you shall not make aRead More …
D5 Creation