Category: OT
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Genesis 37
A daily event in our home is family Bible time, aka devotions or “chapel.” After the kids have finished their morning chores, we gather in the living room at 8:20 a.m. We read a passage from This Week’s Walk with the Lord, which our church publishes each week. One of…
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Feelings or Faith?
Psalms 42 and 43 have always provided encouragement and challenge for me. The situations, experiences, and feelings expressed by the psalmist find parallels in the believer’s life today: feeling far from and longing for God grief and remembrance of better times a soul that is in despair and disturbed mourning…
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The Assyrian-Philistine God Dagon
While studying introductory material for a sermon series I’ll begin this week with Jonah, a Bible teacher from a past generation (James M. Gray) made this comment: To grasp the significance of the events in this chapter it is necessary to know that the Ninevites worshiped the fish God, Dagon,…
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Dealing With Doubt – Psalm 77
The moment I begin to doubt God because of what I am experiencing (77:1-10) I must recall, meditate, and muse upon God and his great and gracious works (77:11-20). God’s work that the psalmist meditated on was – of course – Israel’s Exodus out of Egypt and through the Red…
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Sin and Psalm 51
As part of my scheduled Bible reading this morning I read Psalm 51, a great psalm describing the response of an OT believer to his sin. After reading through and meditating on it, I picked up the new hymnal I was given last night by one of our folks from…
Dan Greenfield 