Tag: Israelites

By micoots
17/08/2016 0

Saying God is transgender

The contours of a new liberal theology, one in accord with the new ideology of sex and gender, are starting to come together. (Liberal theologians have never found a new leftist ideology that they don’t like and won’t refashion theology around.) A rabbi has written an op-ed in the New York Times maintaining that God is transgender.
After the jump, read why he thinks so and read a response from a Bible scholar.
The argument hinges on confusing linguistic gender with natural gender, confusing a Be..

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By micoots
16/08/2016 0

What Happened To Nations Under Corrupt or Bad Leadership In The Bible?

The Bible tells us what happens to nations that fall into corruption and ungodly leadership.
Does God Abandon Nations?What happens to nations that fall into corruption and who have ungodly leadership? It seems obvious to most Christians because they can read the history of mankind, but also the historical accounts written in the Bible where nations departed from obedience to God and later fell into ruin because of idolatry (with sexually immoral practices), exceeding greed, and neglect of the po..

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By micoots
16/08/2016 0

Prophet Joseph — episodes thirty-three and thirty-four

Synopsis. The seven years of famine have begun. People across Egypt are wondering why they woke up hungry in the middle of the night, and why their plants have begun to wilt. Zuleikha, in addition to all her other recent losses, is beginning to go blind and finds it difficult to walk without falling. In Canaan, Jacob’s eyes have begun to dim, too, but he hears that the Egyptians are benefiting under a leader whose name sounds similar to Joseph. Back in Egypt, Zuleikha’s servants are unable to ge..

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By micoots
16/08/2016 0

When God’s Timing Is Not Our Own

“We often find ourselves asking, What does God expect of me? What does he want? The answer is that he wants a people who will faithfully respond to his call to act in the pursuit of his promises, even at the most unlikely time.”

The God of the Unlikely Time
Often our schedule and God’s seem out of sync. He acts earlier than we had expected, or later than we had hoped, or when it seems most awkward and inconvenient. The result is that sometimes we are impatient with God or choose to act impetuou..

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By micoots
15/08/2016 0

Knowing and experiencing God’s amazing love

Knowing and experiencing God’s amazing love

“For the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind; And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.”

This stanza from the hymn, There’s a Wideness, written more than a century ago by Frederick W. Faber and Lizzie S. Tourjee, depicts with explicit clarity the height, depth, and scope of the love of God. They believed that, as it is imposs..

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By micoots
12/08/2016 0

Don’t Waste Your Suffering #2

Take the truth of what you do know and use it to trump the uncertainty of what you don’t know. Too often we look at God through the lens of our circumstances. And Satan, like a mad optician, repeatedly inserts the lens of circumstances into the frame and asks us what we think of God now—and we end up with a distorted view of God. Instead we need to look at our circumstances through the lens of God’s character and his word. We need to trump our emotions with truth. We need to say to ourselves. “I..

By micoots
10/08/2016 0

Sprinkle The Blood

1 PETER 1:2 NKJ
2 . . . in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace
be multiplied.

By faith we can sprinkle the Blood of Jesus on people who come
to us for help. The Blood is a token of Christ's total
redemption, signaling the devil that he must flee. By faith in
that precious Blood all can be delivered.

Blood in the human body brings healing to sick tissue. The
Blood of Jesus brings healing to His body as well.

LEVIT..

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By micoots
03/08/2016 0

It takes more than data

Most of life’s problems that you and your children will face are not caused by a lack of information. Most problems arise because of a lack of sound judgment.

After Joshua died Israel became a train wreck.

Why?

They knew about God but they didn’t know God. Here is what Judges 2:10 says about the time after Joshua’s death:

“And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israe..

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By micoots
03/08/2016 0

How, or Where, God Makes the World a Better Place

There is a dominant and highly-attractive narrative at work among Christian thinkers, and it looks like this:
God created a very good world and called humans to look after its wellbeing.Humans acted so sinfully that creation itself was broken, too. In response, God set apart the descendants of Abraham to do something about that brokenness.Though Abraham’s descendants failed to make this world a better place, God sent Jesus to cast a clearer vision of world betterment. After doing so, Jesus died ..

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By micoots
01/08/2016 0

‘Some good in Judah’: How a sinful king is a sign of grace

When King Rehoboam succeeded his father Solomon as King of Israel, things immediately started to go wrong. He was advised by his wise counsellors to ease the burden Solomon had laid on the people. In an attempt to assert his authority he said, notoriously: “My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions” (2 Chronicles 10:11).

Not surprisingly the people of the northern tribes, always less loyal to David's house, rebelled against him. The kingdom split, with R..