Favourable Government
Today’s Reading: Ezra 4:6-24; 5:1-6:13 To steal Rob Pilkington’s favourite phrase, “what I love about this story is…” that the men who wanted to stop the construction of Jerusalem and
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A couple of thoughts about reading futuristic Bible prophecies (like today’s reading): Often a prophecy speaks of more than one time period. For example, Old Testament passages pointing ahead to
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It seems to me that a key phrase in the first sections is that God “moved the heart…” – first of Cyrus and then of the family heads of Judah
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Today’s Reading: Daniel 1:21; 6 It almost seems appropriate that such a grand old well-known story as the story of Daniel in the lion’s den should have a day to
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Today’s Reading: Daniel 7:1-28; 8:1-27 Are you confused? I confess I am. I usually do not remember my dreams, but Daniel seems to remember his dreams so vividly. Considering I
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Today’s Reading: Psalm 102, 106, 123, 137 “let my cry for help come to you” Does that sound familiar? It is so familiar to me because I do that all
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Today’s Reading: Psalm 44; 74; 79-80; 85; 89 To summarize today’s reading in two sentences: (1) since God is loving and faithful, He will restore the one who repents and
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The book of Job records a long and heated dialogue, but the conversation stops abruptly when God steps in. On the one hand, his appearance is a rebuke to Job’s
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Today’s Reading: Job 32-37 So now the youngest of Job’s friends takes up the issue, not only with Job but with his friends because they condemn Job and yet were
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Today’s Reading: Job 25-31 Not sure if I sense rightly the frustration of Job or how big it was (also in the other friends too!), feeling that they have not
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