Tag: Israel
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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 176: Even Good Kings Can Do Bad Things (1 Kings 15; 2 Chronicles 13-16)
Asa’s story is a reminder that yesterday’s faithfulness doesn’t guarantee today’s dependence—and that our foundation needs God’s strength every step of the journey.
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Day 174: Altars of Convenience (1 Kings 12)
Jeroboam never told Israel to stop worshiping God. He just made worship more convenient. The result was a substitute religion that looked familiar—but led people far from the Lord.
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Day 117: On Yom Ha’Shoah (1 Chronicles 6)
What looks like a list of names to us was a lifeline to the Jews returning from exile. For them, 1 Chronicles 6 was a refusal to let a people disappear.
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Day 089: Making Sense of the Cycles in Judges (Judges 1-2)
The book of Judges is thrilling, violent, tragic, and painfully repetitive. But Judges is not just Israel’s sin. It is God’s mercy.
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Day 072: Taking God at His Word: The Mezuzah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)
In Jewish law, there are precise regulations for where and how to place a mezzuzah— the box that holds God’s law. But the most important instruction for where to put God’s law is right there in the text itself.