Exhausted. That was one of two words you could use to sum up how I felt. Exhausted—and completely happy. It happened this way every year. Ten days of Christmas programs, feeding people, helping elderly women with their coats, and helping them on and off of buses. Singing, laughing, working. Food and dishes and more dishes …
OT 2:4 – Job’s First Defense
Week 2 – Lessons From Job Day 4: Job’s First Defense: Job 29: 11,12 Job’s answer to Eliphaz’s accusation all but silences Job’s friends. Bildad makes a pitiful attempt at a protest in chapter twenty-five (which is all of six verses long!), but from there on, they have little to say. Three chapters into his …
OT 1:3 God’s Reminder – The Purpose of the Command
Week 1 – Lessons from the Law Day 3 – The Purpose of the Command: Deuteronomy 24:17-18 In the last post, we mentioned God’s purpose for ministry to the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger. Today we will go a little deeper into it. Deuteronomy 24:17, 18 says: “Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of …
OT 1:2 Our Terrible God – The Basis of the Command
Week 1 – Lessons from the Law Day 2 – The Basis of the Command Deuteronomy 10:17-19 “For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and the …