Are You Listening?
Today’s reading: 2 Kings 25:23, 24, 26; Jeremiah 40:7-16; 41:1-18; 42:1-22; 43:1-13; 44:1-30; 51:64b Why ask if you will not listen? Why ask God if you will not obey? God’s
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 25:2-4,22; 2 Chronicles 36:17,19-21; Jeremiah 39:2-5,9-18; 40:1-6; 52:9-23,27-30 What must it have been like for the people of Jerusalem to see the Babylonians capture the city
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 24:6,8-10; 2 Chronicles 36:10,12-16; Jeremiah 22:24-30; 37:1-2; Daniel 1:2 All their deafness and selective hearing eventually led to the expulsion of Judah from the land. They
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 22:18-23; 24:5-6; 48:1-49:33 Can God be unwilling to forgive? That’s what it says here, in 2 Kings 24:4, “the LORD was not willing to
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Today’s reading: 2 Kings 23:27, 2 Chronicles 35:20-25, Jeremiah 22:10-17; 26:1-24 King Josiah got killed; his sons did evil in the eyes of the Lord. Jeremiah prophesied for disasters and
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Today’s reading: 2 Kings 22:3-20; 23:1-23, 24, 28; 2 Chronicles 34:8-33, 35:1-29, 26, 27 Spring Clean-up! King Josiah did that. He did not justify, but repent & “clean” up his
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Today’s Reading: Isaiah 65–66; 2 Kings 19:37; 2 Chronicles 33:10-17 Like Jennifer, I am “confused” and amazed, not only by the image of God (in reality!) reaching out His hands
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 20:21; 21:1-16 Were you laughing at people in Judah after today’s reading? Did you say to yourself – “how could they be so stupid”? In such
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 18:13-37; 19:1-36; 20; 2 Chronicles 32:1-16,18-19,21-23,25-33; Isaiah 38:9-20 Ever heard the modern equivalent to the Assyrian commanders’ taunt “On what are you basing this confidence of
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 17:3-5; 7-41; 18:7-11 I am thinking that there is an expression, “That’s the end of a chapter of history!” This certainly is, but what a sad
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