Tag: Idolatry
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Day 285: Woe to You, Chorazin! (Matthew 11:21)
During a visit to the ruins of Chorazin, one of the cities Jesus cursed, I saw something carved into the stones of an ancient synagogue that made His words come alive. It’s a sobering reminder of how easy it is to let compromise slip into our worship until what was once true becomes only true-ish.
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Day 247: The Pride of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:5)
Tyre was more than a city. Like Wall Street today, its name represented an entire economic system—wealth, commerce, influence, and power. None of those things are inherently wrong. But what happens when prosperity becomes our security, our identity, and eventually our god?
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Day 240: Right Place, Wrong Worship (Ezekiel 8:16)
Ezekiel 8 is a sobering reminder that we can be in the right place, doing all the right religious things, while our hearts are turned in the wrong direction.
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Day 233: When the Old Gods Whisper (Jeremiah 44:16-17)
Old sins have a way of remembering only their best moments. When life gets hard, the things we thought we left behind begin whispering that we were happier with them. Jeremiah 44 is a warning about what happens when we believe them.
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Zephaniah: How God Really Feels About You
What kind of God judges sin—and then sings over His people? Zephaniah begins with some of the Bible’s strongest language about God’s wrath and ends with one of its most beautiful pictures of His love. God’s wrath reveals His holiness, but His delight reveals His heart.
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Day 189: Good News for Green Thumbs (2 Chronicles 26:10)
The Bible usually warns us about loving created things more than the Creator. But there’s one delightful exception: a king who “loved the soil.”