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Dealing with Oppressive Government

Sheep Among Wolves Christ warned his followers that they would need to deal with oppressive governments and their agents. He said that in serving Jesus, his disciples would have to stand before...

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Content or Contentious? Lessons from the Wilderness

Learning for Israel’s Wilderness Experience Israel’s experience in the wilderness, is one that makes us ask the question, ‘Are we content or contentious?’ God had delivered the people from slavery in...

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Judeo Christian – What do You Mean?

Sola Scriptura Christians are sometimes confused by the term Judeo Christian. Judeo Christian does not mean Jewish Christian or Messianic Jew, so what does it mean? Let me explain what Judeo Christian...

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Are You Honouring Your Mother? God’s Perspective

By Whose Authority? The Everliving One is the Sovereign who gave a command about honouring your mother. He is the Lord God who sets the standard of right and wrong, and established the family...

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Seventh Commandment — Sanctity of the Family

    What Children Need What does the seventh commandment in God’s law have to do with family stability? Ask many a teacher who has had a few decades of classroom experience in a public setting and...

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The Prophets — Moses’ Message for Our Day

Disciples of Moses? The Pharisees of Jesus’ day thought of themselves as disciples of Moses. They thought they knew Moses’ message, but they were wrong. Jesus consistently exposed the Pharisees’...

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Eighth Commandment — Combatting Theft and Deception

The Way of Deception The Eighth commandment, Lo T’ganav literally means, “NO you steal!” This is God’s instruction for combatting theft and deception. It is sometimes easy to ignore our complicity in...

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The Prophets — Amos Delivers God’s Message

Amos Speaks Truth to Power Amos, the prophet, understood that the Lord God loved his people, even though they had rebelled time after time. So God had commissioned Amos, a farmer, to take a message to...

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The Prophets — Hosea Speaks Truth to Power

Hosea Speaks to Political Turmoil Hosea witnessed the decline and ultimate fall of the 10 tribe confederation of Israel, and his messages resonate with us today. Decades  earlier the once united...

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Fake Christianity

Christianity without Christ? Is America being subverted by a fake Christianity – a Christianity without Christ and his teaching? A recent Barna study concluded that being Christian in America in 2021...

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Tenth Commandment — Overcome Covetousness

Defining Covetousness The tenth commandment — avoiding covetousness — is perhaps the most challenging of God’s divine directives. God is very concerned about what we think, as thought often leads to...

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True Spiritual Privilege

Privilege with Obligations In a world where the epithet of ‘white privilege’ is voiced in a spirit of ignorance or resentment, it might be wise to consider the issue of spiritual privilege....

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Enemies: Dealing with the Adversaries

Jesus had enemies, those who hated his message and denied his authority to speak for God. And those who follow in Jesus’ footsteps as his disciples will also need to deal with enemies. Yet,...

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In the Lord’s Service — Freedom and Duty

Are we willingly engaged in the Lord’s service? We are free to choose who we will serve, but we will serve someone or something. We have many examples of compelled service in scripture, as often the...

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Restoring the Paths — Repairing the Breaches

Isaiah’s Message of Hope The prophet Isaiah wrote to encourage the people of God with a message of hope in restoring the paths and rebuilding the ruins. This was all predicated on the people returning...

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Restoring the Path — Reviving the Household of God

A Great Commission The church of God is in a state of disrepair as a result of decades of attacks from without and within. This has divided the people of God and limited their effectiveness in...

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Temptation — Don’t Give Way to What is Wrong

Temptation – Enticement to Sin The apostle Paul wrote that temptation was something common to all human experience. But that it could be resisted by those who put their trust in God. He would...

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Duty and the Royal Ruler

In rehearsing 70 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II many commentators wrote of her sense of duty and devotion to her people. Though monarchy is not the norm in our world, yet it is of vital...

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What Do We Presume? Sins of Pride 2.0T

The Psalmist wrote extolling the virtues of God’s ways, while warning about the danger of presumptuous sins. The proud, the willful, and the presumptuous were those who ‘stepped out of bounds.’ They...

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Feast of Tabernacles 2022

Feast of Tabernacles 2022 Join us for daily messages this Feast to help you rejoice and encourage you in your walk with God. Click on the links below. Feast of Tabernacles DAY 1 October 10, 2022...

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