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“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.” —John 3:17 (NRSV) Have you ever started disciplining a kid (whether your own, relative, or perhaps you were bold and…

Exodus 10:3–15; Joel 1:2–4; Mark 1:4–8 We read the Little House on the Prairie series to our kids. Ingalls relates how locusts one annihilated their crops. A family that barely lived on a shoestring certainly couldn’t afford that loss. That same swarm swept much of…

Job 1:9–22; Ecclesiastes 3:1–11; Ezekiel 18:5–18 You are probably familiar with Pete Seeger’s Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season). Written in the late 50s, it was commercially via The Byrds in 1965. It takes Ecclesiastes verses 3:1–8 and puts them to music.

Kinda Stuck 7 September 2020 Leviticus 4:27–31; Leviticus 5:14–16; 1 John 1:6–10 When we talk about sin, we often operate with the presumption of commission of sin. In other words, we did something. There is also the sin of omission. In other words, what we…

Judges 17:1–13; 1 Samuel 8:1–9; Ezekiel 14:1–11 Judges 17:6 sums up the problem, “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever seemed right to him.” Not that long ago, the US would use the term “wild west.” Depending on the historian,…