“Good Gifts” Psalm 5; Matthew 7:7-12

“…how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”
This is the week for gift giving.  It is Christmas! 
I have to be honest and admit that I’m not the best or biggest gift giver the world ever saw.  I guess I just detest shopping, or maybe I’m just incurably [...]

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“heavenly host” Luke 2

“Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests’”(Luke 2:13-14)
In our Adult Bible Fellowship on Sunday, it was pointed out that “the heavenly host” that appeared to the shepherds isn’t a [...]

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“a blessing to all nations” Genesis 12:1-8; Genesis 22:15-18

“…through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
From the very beginning of his dealings with the family that would become the nation of Israel, God made it unmistakably clear that his purpose was to bless “all nations on earth” through the offspring of this one nation.  A son [...]

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“nations” Acts 17 & Revelation 7

“From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not [...]

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“Name Makers” Genesis 11:1-9

4 They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
The ability to communicate is something that we as humans treasure. Our precision in language [...]

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“nations” Genesis 10

This chapter gives us the genealogy of Noah’s three sons, which three times includes the interesting phrase “by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.” This is the first time the word and concept of “nations” is used in the Bible.   Up until this point the world had always been a [...]

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