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Jonah

The book of Jonah is a fantastic story until you get to the last chapter. If you aren’t familiar with the story, it starts out with God telling his prophet Jonah to go preach to the pagan city of Nineveh, which was essentially the capital city of Assyria. The Assyrian’s were Israel’s greatest threat at…

The Sacrifice

Genesis 29: The story of Abraham offering up his son Issac may make you cringe a bit.  It is after all disturbing that God would ask Abraham to do such a thing.  Of course we know that it all panned out it the end, but what if it didn’t?  What if there was nothing but…

The Kingdom of God

Were are talking tonight about Jesus’ trial before Pilate.  In this passage Jesus talks about his kingdom not being of this world.  Pilate would have taken “kingdom” to mean something entirely different than what Jesus was saying.  So Jesus goes on to explain that he is not a political revolutionary. As I was looking through…

Healing of the Blind Man (part 2)

This man had lived his whole life blind, forced to beg for a living, scorned by men, yet completely dependent on them.  And in his world there was no one who could truly help him.  Sure they could give him money or bread, but that would not change the harsh reality of his life.  He…

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