Month: August 2022
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Day 241: Cracking the Code of Ezekiel’s Vision (Ezekiel 9-12)
9 I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz. 10 As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 11 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions…
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Day 240: Right Place, Wrong Worship (Ezekiel 5-8)
“And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the…
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Day 239: Summoned (Ezekiel 1-4)
3 And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. 4 The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say…
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The Perfect Diamond of Romans 8:28
Sermon preached August 28, 2022, Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, Alabama. James Jackson, Pastor [I am grateful to the teaching of Skip Heitzig at Calvary Church Albuquerque. His sermon, “The Steady Hand of a Caring God” provides the outline and structure of this sermon.] I promise I didn’t plan this. We’ve been in Romans for over…
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Day 229: Following the Commands of My Father (Jeremiah 35-37)
Note: While I was trying to find an image to go along with this post, I stumbled on a fascinating tidbit from American history. Around 1835, an organization was founded that would provide fellowship for working class men, similar to the Masons or the Elks, called the “Independent Order of the Rechabites.” You can read…
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Day 229: Jefferson and Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 36:27-28)
27 Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 28 “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. Jeremiah 36:27-28 Through…
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Day 228: Still, Shut Up (Jeremiah 33:1)
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard: 2 “Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it—the Lord is his name: 3 Call to me and I will answer you, and will…
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Day 227: Grace-Filled Forgetfulness (Jeremiah 31:33-34)
3 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one…
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Day 226: Can We Apply Jeremiah 29:11 to Ourselves? (Jeremiah 29:11)
Through the Bible: Jeremiah 26-29 Several years ago, while our house was being built, my family came to the construction site late in the day, after the workers had left. We went from room to room, writing Scripture on the beams and on the concrete. “Practice hospitality” (Romans 12:13) went in the dining room. “I…
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(Re) Defining the Relationship (Romans 8:12-17)
This week, I asked several people around me if they knew what a DTR was. My suspicion was that if you were a college student or young adult, you knew exactly what a DTR was, but that if you were older, you didn’t. And as it turned out, I was right. When I asked a…