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For he [King Asa] took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: — 2 Chronicles 14:3 Asa was what is known as an iconoclast—One who breaks down images or an image buster (cf. Ex. 23:24; 34:13; Dt. 7:5; 1 Sam. …
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: Yet his meat in his bowels is …
“What I have written, I have written.” —John 19:22 These are the words of Pilate to the chief priests who objected to the inscription he put on the cross of Christ. What Pilate wrote, he wrote. How he lived, he lived, and it cannot be changed. What Pilate said to the chief priests, we can …
“And he said, Ye shall not send.” —2 Kings 2:16 One of television’s better shows was “Father Knows Best.” It ran from 1954-1960. Each episode usually depicted strong family values and the wisdom of Jim Anderson, the father of three children. Does “father know best?” I guess it depends on who the father is and …
The concept of Sunday School is not a new innovation. The roots of Sunday School go all the way back to the Old Testament Law. Consider Deuteronomy 31:12— “Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear …
How to have the peace of God in circumstances that hold you captive.