“If a woman conceives and bears a man child, then she shall be unclean for seven days … And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised, and she shall continue in her purifying for three and thirty days. She shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, untilContinue reading “God Placed a Boundary Between Sex, Children, and Worship. Leviticus 12:2-4.”
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Be Wise! WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR SPOUSE, YOU CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE. Ezra 10:2.
While living in exile, many of Israel’s men married the women of Babylon. They had been told not to marry foreign (non-Jewish) women, but they did not obey. Ezra led the people in prayers of repentance—and Ezra took this sin personally. He was innocent—that is, Ezra did not marry outside the faith. But because soContinue reading “Be Wise! WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR SPOUSE, YOU CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE. Ezra 10:2.”
Corporate Sin. Daniel 9:8-9.
Americans, more than any other culture, are obsessed with independence. We tell ourselves we can do what we want. We cherish individual freedom over everything else, to the point that we would rather be self-destructive than submit to someone else’s idea of how we should live. But our selfish obsession with “liberty,” “self-actualization,” “self-care,” orContinue reading “Corporate Sin. Daniel 9:8-9.”
THE FROG IN THE POT, Part One.
I mentioned the “frog in the pot story” recently. Al Gore once told the story this way: “If a frog jumps into a pot of boiling water, it jumps right out again because it senses the danger. But if the very same frog jumps into a pot of lukewarm water that is slowly brought toContinue reading “THE FROG IN THE POT, Part One.”
Blessings During a Global Disaster.
Does God always reward obedience? Do good people suffer? Do bad people enjoy pleasures? Is life “fair”? No. Remember, God is God. “He causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust.” Matthew 5:45. We all get wet together. Some rains nurture, some rains destroy. And we suffer for corporate sin. What isContinue reading “Blessings During a Global Disaster.”
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