Back when I was a lad—my original notes had wee lad—during my preteen and early teen years, I was a baseball fanatic. It meant everything to me. Of course, I was a Pittsburgh Pirate fan (which all of you should be, by the …
The first miracle Jesus Christ performs during His ministry is changing water into wine at a marriage feast in Cana (John 2:1-11). When we compare what Christ and Moses each did with water, Jesus' miracle shows the contrast between …
In Ezekiel 22, the prophet speaks of latter-day Israel. Note that God addresses all elements of Israelite society. Priests, princes, prophet, people—that is just about everyone. No wonder God laments: "So I sought for a man among them …

(13) They break up my path,
They promote my calamity;
They have no helper.
The passage in which this verse appears is a long response from Job, answering the final argument proffered by Job's three "friends," Bildad's short, six-verse diatribe in Job 25. In the intervening chapters Job has told off …
The apostle Peter, in Acts 2:38-39, identifies a very special gift God has given us: Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” (See also Acts 10:45. Emphasis ours.) In Acts 8:20, Peter castigates Simon, a sorcerer in Samaria, who had seen the Holy Spirit being given to those who had repented, been baptized, and had hands laid on them, and …
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