Week 9: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1: 1+1=1 (Malachi Cont’d) Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun. He, of course, was right. One of today’s most frequently asked questions was also posed to Judah by Malachi: “Have we not all one father? hath not God created us? why do we …
OT 8:5 Dung on Your Face (Part 2) – Priests Gone Astray
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5 – Dung on Your Face (Part 2) –Priests Gone Astray: Malachi 2:1-9 The message of Malachi chapter two was written to the priests. God had made a covenant with the Levites, but they had “departed out of the way” (2:8). This passage addresses very clearly …
OT 8:4 Dung on Your Face
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 4 – Malachi – Dung on Your Face: Malachi 2:1-3 This is a hard post for me to write, not because I don’t want to write it, but because I want to scream it from the housetops and know that I can’t. Imagine this scene, a …
OT 8:3 Malachi – Setting the Stage
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Malachi: Setting the Stage Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament. As stories go, this “final chapter” would be similar to that of a children’s book that I once read. The fair maiden is trapped in the castle tower, held prisoner by the …
OT 8:2 Mordecai’s Influence
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – Esther Cont’d – Mordecai’s Influence: Esther 2:20; 4:1-17 Esther’s obedience continued even after she had been made queen. Chapter two, verse seventeen tells us that she was made queen in Vashti’s place. The king threw a feast, he gave out money and gifts, made …
OT 8:1 Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1 – Esther Cont’d – Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic: Esther 2:10; Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That Mordecai took this to heart can be plainly …
OT 7:3 Zechariah and the Fatherless
Week 7 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Zechariah and the Fatherless: Zechariah 7,8 So, what about the fatherless? Where do they come into this whole picture? Once again, they are at the heart of the issue. Apparently, during the time of the captivity the Jews had been observing a time of …
OT 1:4 The Pocketbook – God’s Plan for Provision
Week 1 – Lessons from the Law Day 4 – God’s Plan for Provision: Deuteronomy 14:28,29; 16:11-14; 24:17-22; 26:12,13 Money. Money. Money. Why are so many things about money! It seems sometimes like money is the biggest hurdle in reaching out to the fatherless. Taking on a children’s home or even just adding one child …
Of Trees and Ladders
When I was eight years old, we lived in an old farmhouse in southern Illinois. It had a big yard and a big garden and trees, lots of trees. There were three or four gigantic, old trees in what I always considered to be the front yard. They seemed to stand watch along the road …
Kenya 2012 Trip Update 2
God is doing some exciting things! Before I get to the trip update I must share some exciting news! Over the course of the last year I have asked for prayer for an opportunity to minister among the children of prisoners here in our area. Shortly after we started to pursue this last year the …