Monthly Archives: August 2018

” Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” Luke 22:17-22 (Voice) describes Jesus celebrating Passover with His disciples before He dies.  “He took a cup of wine and gave thanks for it.  Take this; share it among yourselves.  Know this: I will not drink another sip of wine until the kingdom of God has arrived in fullness.   Then He took break, gave thanks, broke it, and shared it with them.  ‘This is My body, My body given…..

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Jehu says to Jehonadab in 2 Kings 10:16-18a, “’You’re coming with me.  You will witness my zeal for the Eternal One.’   So the two rode off together in Jehu’s chariot.  When they arrived in Samaria, Jehu slaughtered every person who was at all connected to Ahab.  Finally every remnant of Ahab was erased from the earth.  This all happened exactly as the Eternal said it would when He gave His message through Elijah.” This passage was referring to when God…..

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When we have a big decision to make, who do we seek advice from?  Who influences our decisions? As we were waiting for my mother to complete her surgery and recover yesterday, my family was watching Dr. Phil on the television.   There was a woman on the show who was being confronted by her mother for making really poor decisions in her life that were impacting not only her but her children. She had been consulting someone who called himself…..

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After you are long gone, what is it that you want your children, your children’s children and down the line to remember?  What is the most important thing you came to know that you want all generations after you to not forget? One uniqueness of the Israelites is their ability to pass down their rich heritage of faith.  They passed it down through stories and memorabilia.   As they were in Egypt and wondered the wilderness, eventually moving into Canaan, they…..

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What riles you?  What makes you so mad you have to do something about it?  What causes you stay up at night unable to sleep until resolved? Many speak of being zealous for God and His purposes but how is that lived out in our lives?  What about if God touches or takes that which we are most emotionally attached? Abraham loved his natural born son by Sarah and him.   Isaac was a gift to him in his old age…..

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