When did you last use the word “accident” to excuse yourself from liability? Can you remember? Were you accidentally tardy? Did you accidentally dent your car? Accidentally neglect an assignment? How often I screamed as a child: “BUT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!” I knew accidents were not punished the way intentional acts were. If youContinue reading “Manslaughter.”
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Test Your Heart.
Abraham had it all—land, cattle, crops, gold, 300 employees—but no children. His peers might have had 60 descendants at his age, but Abe had none. SIX times God repeated his promise of a son—and of heirs that would outnumber the stars. Then at 86, Abe had a son, by Hagar. Finally at 100, God gaveContinue reading “Test Your Heart.”
El Roi: The God Who Sees. Genesis 16:13-14.
Do you ever feel abandoned, like no one knows what you are going through? Like God is not really paying attention? Do you ever just want to cry out to God, “Hey, are you listening to me? Do you see what I’m going through here?” GOD SEES. Jacob worked seven years to marry Rebecca andContinue reading “El Roi: The God Who Sees. Genesis 16:13-14.”
DOES THE EVIL WORLD OVERWHELM YOU? Genesis 6:5-6
In Genesis, God looks at people and regrets creating us. Imagine being so bad God regrets you. Hard to imagine? But that’s all of us apart from His blood. When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth, and that every scheme he thought of was nothing but evil all the time,Continue reading “DOES THE EVIL WORLD OVERWHELM YOU? Genesis 6:5-6”
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