Today I am going to begin a series that I think will carry me right on through to the Days of Unleavened Bread. I gave a series on this subject once before. As you begin to hear it, some of you who have been around for that long may …
In the vast array of God's creation, how many times have we studied an object and wondered, "How did God think of that?" or perhaps, "What possible purpose can that thing serve?" More often than not, when we dissect one of God's …
Scripture shows plainly that Jesus's body and soul were in "Hades"—the grave—for three days and three nights, starting on the day He died. He was not in Paradise, and thus neither was the criminal crucified beside Him. Even so, Luke …

(4) And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
The English word "nurture" (KJV) or "training" (NKJV) indicates caring for and providing supportive instruction. The underlying Greek word more specifically involves educational feeding or instruction, as if in school or for the purpose …
In Part One, we saw how corrosive bitterness and resentment can be to our relationships, considering the well-known example of Esau toward his brother, Jacob. Another example of bitterness in the Bible appears in the story of Naomi. After moving from Judah to the land of Moab during a famine with her husband and two sons, she had to deal with at least two significant tragedies. She lost not only her husband, Elimelech, but also both of her adult sons ten years later. After being left with just her two daughters-in-law in a foreign land, she says in Ruth 1:13, “No, my daughters; for it …
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