And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables (John 2:15, ESV). Jesus drove the money-changers out of Herod’s temple. First, there was Solomon’s temple destroyed by the Babylonians, then a rebuilt […]
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6, ESV). Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He is not the Prince of anxiety, doubt, or fear. For years, I’ve struggled to keep the
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Genesis is the beginning. . . In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1, ESV). Revelation is the end. . . Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away (Revelation 21:1). There are many similarities between the Book of Genesis and the
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Protect my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me from the secret discussion of evildoers (Psalm 64:1b-2a, NASB). In 1 Samuel 16, Samuel the prophet anoints the shepherd boy David as king of Israel. David is fifteen years old. In 2 Samuel 5, the elders of Israel came together to proclaim David as King of
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18a, ESV). The Bible teaches general grace for everyone, and we must grow in this grace. The Bible also explains that grace gets personal — that each of us has a grace/gift combination unique to us. The word for grace is
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. . .Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you (1 Peter 5:7, ESV). My mind can spin into uncontrollable imagining scenarios. The scenarios rarely happen in reality, but nevertheless, my mind adds anxiety to the spinning. My wife has a simple solution. She says, “You don’t know what’s going to happen, so
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14, KJV). Hyperlinked to. . . Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is,
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It doesn’t matter what others think of you, and it also doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. What matters is what God thinks of you. . . How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! (Psalm 139:17-18a, NLT) We
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This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon take place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant John (Revelation 1:1, NLT). Repeat after me, “The Book of Revelation.” Not the Book of Revelations. To understand the Book of Revelation, first, we
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Wise followers of Jesus carefully choose their friends. Psalm 101 teaches us who to hang out with and who to avoid. Avoid those who have walked away from Jesus. . . I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me (v. 3b, ESV). Those who have known Jesus and then
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