Aug
18
(Proverbs 8:17) Those who seek for God will find him.
The phrase "seek for God" stirs up the image of a religious game of hide and seek. God
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Aug
14
(Proverbs 3:5–6) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
The phrase “trusting in the Lord” is not simply an intellectual assent, or quoting a Bible passage.
It is throwing
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Aug
13
(Proverbs 1:20–21) Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square.
In this Proverb, wisdom is personified, as it often is in the book of Proverbs.
God’s wisdom is available
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Aug
11
(Jeremiah 2:13) God is the spring of living water, but you dig your own water cisterns.
What does this mean that God is the spring of living water?
It means that God is the eternal source
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Aug
07
(Psalms 46:10) Be still, and know that I am God.
We live in a world of rush, rush, rush. Our schedule is packed with one activity after another. Before we
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Aug
06
(1 Peter 4:8) Love each other deeply because love covers over over a multitude of sins.
This verse emphasizes the power of love in healing and reconciling relationships in our lives.
When we respond to conflict
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Aug
05
(Hebrews 4:14) We have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven.
One theological topic that is often neglected by many Christians today is that Jesus is our eternal high priest.
On
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Aug
04
(Exodus 15:3) The Lord is a warrior.
After God delivered Israel out of Egyptian slavery, Moses and his sister Miriam sang a song of victory and triumph
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Jul
31
(Ezekiel 37:5) I will make Spirit enter these dry bones, and they will come to life.
The prophet Ezekiel saw a vision of a valley filled with dry dead bones. But then, God declared, “I will
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Jul
30
(Numbers 13:33) We are like grasshoppers.
After being delivered from Egypt by the power of God, Israel was now on a wilderness journey to the promised
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