This is one of the most dramatic and gritty stories in the Bible: Ehud kills Eglon, the Moabite king, in Judges 3:12-30. While revealing the moral complexities of Israel’s turbulent era, it showcases Ehud’s courage, cunning, and divine empowerment. It’s a thrilling tale of liberation, but it also makes you think about God’s sovereignty, human […]
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As recorded in Matthew chapter seven, verses three through five, the Sermon on the Mount is one of the most memorable and frequently quoted teachings of Jesus. In order to illustrate the human tendency toward hypocrisy, Jesus asks a piercing question using vivid, almost comical imagery: Why do you notice the speck of sawdust in
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In the Bible, darkness is not simply described as the absence of light, but, at times, it is portrayed as a tangible force. a physical reality that has no natural explanation. During the ninth plague inflicted upon Egypt during the Book of Exodus, this “darkness that is felt” is distinct from ordinary night and eclipse
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There is a dramatic scene in the New Testament that demonstrates the raw intensity of Jesus’ mission in its heart. In the event referred to as the Cleansing of the Temple, Jesus entered the sacred precincts of the Temple during the Passover festival and unleashed a torrent of righteous fury. As he overturns tables, scatters
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Dear reader, I’m going to take a more academic approach to this post because this is more of a theological issue than a sermon type of topic. If you come across a word or phrase you don’t know, check it out. This is an extremely important part of the sermon on the mount, so I
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Obadiah stands out as a featherweight contender among the vast library of the Bible, where epics unfold across hundreds of pages and prophets thunder for chapters on end. It is the shortest book in the Old Testament. It contains only 21 verses and one chapter. However, this book packs a punch that echoes through millennia
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There lies a graveyard in the shadowed valleys of human existence, where sin weighs heavily on the soul like an unrelenting shroud. Yet in the divine economy of grace, the graveyard is not the final resting place for the redeemed, but a threshold from which they can emerge. It is a place of spiritual death
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Ezekiel stands in a valley choked with death and bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14. This is not your average graveyard. It’s a blinding vision of hopelessness, where life has been reduced to its most basic form. Bleached, scattered and broken bones stretch endlessly before him, remnants of a vibrant people now reduced to a skeletal wasteland.
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