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Thoughts on Judges 8

March 10, 2010

Note: I had some issues with my site over the weekend and lost a couple of posts. If you have already seen this, I apologize for the re-post.
We’re reading through Judges at Oak Tree Church, and I’m posting some observations from my daily readings here within a day or two after the reading. I’d love for you [...]

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Thoughts on Judges 3

March 4, 2010

We’re reading through Judges at Oak Tree Church, and I’m posting some observations from my daily readings here. I’d love for you to join in the discussion.
Thoughts on Judges 3
These were the nations the LORD permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel– he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle [...]

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Now I know my ABC’s

November 20, 2009

“Now I know my ABC’s,
Next time won’t you sing with me?”
Is there anything more basic than the alphabet? We begin singing this little song with our children very early so they actually do “know their ABC’s” (preferably before everyone else’s kids!).
But the ABC’s have come to mean more than just a set of 26 consonants and [...]

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Jonah 2 (Part 2)

April 14, 2009

So, we’re working through the book of Jonah, and we handled (as much as possible) the deal with the huge fish in the last post. There is one more important thing about chapter 2 that I’d like to consider here.
How did Jonah survive?
According to everything I have been taught, Jonah was swallowed by the huge [...]

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Jonah 1 (Part 1)

April 7, 2009

Jonah’s story is not that different from mine and yours. No, I haven’t been eaten by a fish (though I still have pain from a fight with our dog once), and you haven’t either. But, really, that’s not the point of the story. Sure, we teach our kids about “Jonah and the Great Fish” (or [...]

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