Begin-again God

New beginnings feature prominently in the Bible. Paying attention to them tells us a lot about God and why He is letting this virus of rebellion continue and how it will all end.

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The Levite and His Concubine. Why?

The Levite and his concubine is probably the most stomach-turning story in the whole Bible, and we wonder why God would have preserved it there. The prophet Hosea, who showed up 400 years later, alluded to that story and helps us to understand a bit of why the story has been preserved.

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You Can Understand the Book of Revelation, 9-part series

1. How to Approach the Bible Safely

2. How to Interpret Revelation Safely

3. Revelation is About Jesus

4. The Woman, the Child, and the Red Dragon

5. The Dragon’s War

6. God’s Side of the Conflict

7. What is Armageddon?

8. Three Confederacies of Armageddon

9. The Sequence of Final Events

Revelation is usually presented as a packaged interpretation. Rarely is the method used for coming up with the interpretation described. But that is exactly what happens in this series. We work through the method we should use and then we apply that method to interpreting the central portion of Revelation.

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Searching for the Ark of the Covenant

As a kid, our family went in search of the Ark of the Covenant in Jordan, which was supposedly in a cave near Mount Nebo.

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Believing Before the Miracle

In John 4, the nobleman whose son was dying came to Jesus with his problem. But he discovered he had brought another problem along as well because he had determined to either believe or reject Jesus based on whether or not Jesus would give him what he wanted.

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Naked Humans, Compassionate God, Pt. 2

When God came looking for Adam and Eve in the garden, they met him with excuses and even blame. But in the course of their conversation the real situation became clear. The result was that God declared that from that point on God’s people and Satan, the serpent, would be at war.

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Naked Humans, Compassionate God, Pt. 1

After Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, they realized they were naked, literally and spiritually. So they attempted to make clothes from leaves, but failed. So they hid from God. God knew where they were, but he allowed them to hide from him and searched for them. Why? The answer says something profound about God.

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Small Actions, Spectacular Results

Two points: God is calling you. Just you. And he probably is not asking you to do something big and dramatic. He’s probably asking you to do something relatively small. But that small thing, when we obey, has spectacular results.

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Crafty Serpent, Naked Humans

Genesis 3 tells the story of what went wrong in the world at the very beginning. When Eve chose to talk with the serpent in the Garden of Eden, she didn’t stand a chance against his subtlety. She was outmatched by many leagues.

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Decision by Dice

Just before Pentecost, the 11 apostles of Jesus decided that they needed to replace the position that Judas left with another apostle. They chose Matthias by casting lots (similar to rolling dice). Should they have done that? Is it possible that they moved ahead of the Holy Spirit on that one? How does a person discover God’s will?

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