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Archive for December, 2008

The day after our national elections in America, I began a study in the largest of biblical books – Jeremiah.  One of the sisters in the B.B.C. church family commented, “When you read this book, it is like opening the daily newspaper.”  The turbulent events of Jeremiah’s day were global.  The spiritual declension in his [...]

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The Idaho Falls library has regular book sales.
I went to today’s sale, lingered for about ten minutes, and bought these two books for 25 cents total:

The emerging church (Word, 1970) by Bruce Larson and Ralph Osborne
Fundamentals of the Faith (Zondervan, 1969), edited by Carl. F. H. Henry – a four year work involving 13 different [...]

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Ray’s Teton Valley News, 14

A Real Test of Faith and Character – Matthew 1:20
You have just learned that your future bride is pregnant, and you are not the father.  You love her so much and do not want her to be shamed, but how can you marry this unfaithful woman.  This is the very challenge that Joseph, the earthly [...]

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Bethel

We touched upon the name, Bethel, in Genesis 28:19 this evening. 
 
Did you see what Bethel was called at one time . . . Luz?  Notice the meanings of the names – the contrast between separation and house of God.
 
A.W. Pink writes,

God calls us to separate from the world, but in leaving the world [...]

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