Solomon’s book about love in Song of Solomon 2:15 has this strange warning. “Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines.” Little foxes in the mid-east weigh only about eight or nine pounds and measure about 20 inches long. They are quick and skillful but not strong ...
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JEREMIAH 2:13 –For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 耶利米书 2:13 –因为我的百姓做了两件恶事,就是离弃我这活水的泉源,为自己凿出池子,是破裂不能存水的池子。 Going Down The Toilet This is what is happening to the nation of Judah. 下到茅厕里去 这是发生在犹大民族身上的事情。 The ...
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1 SAMUEL 15 撒母耳记上 15 20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of ...
Read More »The Eighth Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness
When I think back on the other seven fruits of the Spirit, gentleness includes love, patience, kindness, and goodness. Gentleness, however, has a special significance not given to the other fruits. The Greek meaning is along the line of “sweet reasonableness.” I Peter 3:4 in the NASV says it is ...
Read More »Parents: How to Get it Right
What’s your favorite thing to worry about? Don’t worry (pun intended), this isn’t going to be another lengthy article about the problems of worry, stress and anxiety. No, I simply ask because I’ve discovered that (for today) my pet worry is parenting. And I simply hope I’m not alone. I ...
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