Tag: heart
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Empty-Hearted Worship
No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.–Deuteronomy 16 In the context here, the men were to gather at the three festivals and bring with them agricultural gifts from their fields and vines. These were intentional and required gatherings that were…
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The Bondservant
16But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, 17then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do…
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The God of Clear Expectations
26“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, 28and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods…
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The Stubborn Heart
16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. So you don’t have to have a biology degree to know that the heart doesn’t have that anatomy. God was using a real ceremony that spoke of being obedient and set apart for him and making it a metaphor for the inner person.…
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Follow God’s ‘Heart’
29Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments…–Deuteronomy 5 I don’t consider myself a good memorizer of Scripture, but I do tend to think in categories and chapters. So if you asked me, “When in the New Testament does Jesus speak about the Holy…
Joel M Bradshaw 