Growing in Grace

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Annihilate the Amalekites

A sermon by Mike Woodruff (Lake Forest, IL) on 1 Sam. 15 and the question of the Amalekites:
There comes a time in most everyone’s life when they realize that they just are not as good as they thought they were. They are not as fast or as strong as they imagined, not as smart or [...]

Audio from the IARBC conference

I got the CD from the Conference this week.  Here’s the first installment with Colin Smith preaching through selected portions of Judges. You’ll really appreciate his insights.
Colin Smith on Ehud
Colin Smith on Gideon
Colin Smith on Samson

Celebrate!

God wants us to show our love by rejoicing in Him. Deuteronomy 12:1-19 shows God’s priority on this.  In the New Testament, the temple becomes the church (not the location but the people).  Our rejoicing becomes not just for God’s blessing on what we attempt but in all things.
Notice:
John 4:24; 1 Cor. 6:18-20; 1 Cor. [...]

Congratulations to the state of Israel on 60 years!

Anne Rice, the vampire novelist that several years ago turned from 30 years of atheism, said,
I stumbled upon a mystery without a solution, a mystery so immense that I gave up trying to find an explanation because the whole mystery defied belief. The mystery was the survival of the Jews…. It was this mystery that [...]

John Piper on the Cyclone in Myanmar

From the Desiring God blog:
As the carnage from Cyclone Nargis moves toward 50,000 dead and beyond, there is a way to pray and act:
1. Be softened to the pain nearby.
The Good Samaritan knew nothing of the calamities in first century Burma, but was commended by the Lord for mercies at hand (Luke 10:25-37).
2. Pray for [...]

More info on boiling a kid in his mother’s milk

 

Taken from Dr. Constable’s notes on Deuteronomy:

“The ceremonial custom of boiling a kid in its mother’s milk is known from the ancient Canaanite tablets found at Ugarit [i.e., the Ras Shamra Tablets]. Such a rite was superstitiously observed by the Canaanites, hoping that through magical acts they could increase fertility and productivity (14:21; Ex. 23:19; [...]

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