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03/03/2021 – Day 290 – 2 Chronicles 20 – 24 // “Trials tend to bring us to the safety of our knees” – 20: 2,3//

Let’s look at 20: 2,3: “Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria, and they are in …

03/02/2021 – Day 289 – Deuteronomy 1 – 3 // Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land

I recall a scene in C.S. Lewis’ fictional: “The Great Divorce” where lost souls were being cajoled to entered into the gates of heaven by loved ones and still …

02/28/2021 – Day 288 – Acts 7 & 8 // Stephen’s capsulization of the 1300 year unwinding of God’s covenant with His people.

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1867/why-did-stephen-give-such-a-long-speech

For God’s covenant with His chosen people blossoms out to all souls accepting Yeshua (Jesus) the Christ as their personal Lord and savior. What’s fascinating to me …

02/27/2021 – Day 287 – Hebrews 6 – 10 – We are not only saved “from something” (sin and death), but “to something”, by His grace – Our mission to His kingdom! Failure is not an option.

Wedding day today! (saturday,02/27/2021) ; so, I am posting one day ahead to minimize the catch up. Bill, Ada, Cooper and Bertie will be with us today from heaven! …

02/26/2021 – Day 285 – Proverbs 29 – 30 – “Rebuking over flattery for love of a brother…” and continuation of: “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist!””

“Proverbs 28: 23: “He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward Then he who flatters with the tongue.”

https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/proverbs-27-5.html

And another one, that we ignore at our own peril …

02/23/2021 – Day 282 – Numbers 33 – 36 // “Putting God in the Dock” (book title by C.S. Lewis)

Read again 33: 51-55, but I will quote just verses 55 & 56: “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it …