Tag: approval

• The Idols of Compromise

  12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, 13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, 14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. 16Wisdom will save you also…

  bradshawjoel

  December 2, 2025

  proverbs

  adultery, approval, bible, comfort, compromise, devo, idol, idols, pleasure, proverbs 2, security

• 400 Prophets

  6So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” “Go,” they answered, “for the Lord will give it into the king’s hand.” 7But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet of the Lord here whom we can inquire of?”…

  bradshawjoel

  October 6, 2025

  1 kings

  1 kings 22, approval, bible, God, guidance, Israel, jehoshaphat, Jeremiah 17:9, judah, problems, yahweh

• Heart Test

  4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.–1 Thessalonians 2  Paul’s basic argument was this. God approved of him and the ministry he did. That was enough for Paul. All of his life…

  bradshawjoel

  October 23, 2022

  1 thessalonians

  approval, audience, bible, christian, God, heart, life, mankind, motivating, motivation, motivations, stage, test