Tag: hope
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7 Lines [1-minute read]
1Praise the Lord, my soul. Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty… 33I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 34May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the Lord.–Psalm 104 A psalm celebrating God’s sovereignty over…
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Urban Legends
10He does not deal with us according to our sins,nor repay us according to our iniquities.11For as high as the heavens are above the earth,so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12as far as the east is from the west,so far does he remove our transgressions from us.–Psalm 103 Many people…
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Salt
6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.–Colossians 4 When Paul wrote this to the Colossians, he had a Torah principle in mind. Let’s recall the command from Leviticus chapter 2. You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall…
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Intentional [1-minute read]
9…seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.–Colossians 3 As I journey with people who desire to change, I most always lead them through these verses. I have them ponder their old self, their…
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Substance
16Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in…
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Mine (1-minute read)
26You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.–Leviticus 20 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are…
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Precious Blood
10“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you…
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The Cost of Holiness
31“Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”–Leviticus 15 Adam and Eve found this out: sin brings separation from the Holy God. Israel had the tabernacle in the middle of their camp. This is where God…
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A Sovereign Reflection
34“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession…–Leviticus 14 Two basic interpretations here: 1, GOD PASSIVELY ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN. This would try to let God off of the hook or…
Joel M Bradshaw 