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Building Temples and Building Homes. 2 Chronicles 7:1-3.

Pictured: “Topping Out Bear Stearns, New York City,” image copied from https://millersamuel.com/with-a-flag-an-i-beam-and-a-christmas-tree-the-party-is-just-getting-started/ I grew up in a boomtown. During my childhood, Houston was America’s fastest growing city.[1] One day my friends and I might be in a field flipping over scrap wood to find snakes, and a year later it would be a 10-story IRSContinue reading “Building Temples and Building Homes. 2 Chronicles 7:1-3.”

GOD’S HOUSE. Nehemiah 13:7-9; 1 Corinthians 6:19.

My attention was arrested this morning by a strange passage: “I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in … God’s house. I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room. I ordered that the rooms be purified, and IContinue reading “GOD’S HOUSE. Nehemiah 13:7-9; 1 Corinthians 6:19.”

Solomon’s Temple.

The temple Solomon built was amazing. Hewn stones outside, cedar paneling inside, and an interior overlaid with 45,000 pounds of gold. Carvings, statues, and golden cherubim inside with their wings spread across the span of the hall. Halls, courtyards, windows, and steps leading up to huge doors. Imagine Washington D.C. with all its grand, glorious,Continue reading “Solomon’s Temple.”