The last time we had a Bible study we covered the first half of Genesis 21, with the birth of Isaac. Then resulting from that, Hagar and Ishmael were sent away. Genesis 21:22-32 And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and …
The city of Tyre on the Phoenician coast, about 22 miles south of Sidon, receives its first mention in Joshua 19:29: “And the border turned to Ramah and to the fortified city of Tyre . . ..” By the time of Joshua, sometime around 1400 …
Western civilization is fixated on the matter of free choice. Everyone wants to be able to choose whatever beliefs, behaviors, and lifestyles seem best to them, and in principle, it is hard to fault them. The human nature in all of us …

(24) And he looked up and said, 'I see men like trees, walking.' (25) Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly.
Jesus touches the man's eyes again, and this time his vision becomes completely clear. When ophthalmologists restore vision surgically today, they allow their patients only a glimmer of light at first so that the optic nerve can …
A while ago, I received a text from an acquaintance containing just the words, “Mark 7:18.” It states, “Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?” (Mark 7:18-19). It confused me until I remembered sharing a Facebook post called “Insects of the Sea,” featuring a shrimp and a cockroach. So, I replied, asking, “Are you sure you understand that passage? Have you compared it to Peter’s vision of the sheet of animals, where he stated he had never eaten anything …
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