Tag: reversal

• Emotional Reversal

  21…Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.25…Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.–Luke 6 Let’s ask four questions. As you ponder your emotions and attitudes now, consider the reason for our hope. Jesus, the author and provider of the emotional reversal. He was despised and rejected by…

  bradshawjoel

  May 10, 2023

  luke

  bible, emotions, faith, genesis 50:20, God, heart, hope, Isaiah 53, jesus, joseph, laugh, laughing, luke, Luke 6, perspective, reversal, weep, weeping

• A Proverb and a Prodigal

  7The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.–Proverbs 28 It almost seems impossible that Jesus didn’t have this proverb on his mind when he gave his famous parable about the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. Let’s use that passage to illustrate. A father had…

  bradshawjoel

  April 28, 2023

  proverbs, Uncategorized

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• The God of Reversals

  40he pours contempt on princesand makes them wander in trackless wastes;41but he raises up the needy out of afflictionand makes their families like flocks.42The upright see it and are glad,and all wickedness shuts its mouth.–Psalm 107 This psalm spoke of the steadfast love of God and how we who have been redeemed by God should…

  bradshawjoel

  June 16, 2022

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