“This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king. Daniel 4:24 (NIV). Don’t shoot the messenger. Imagine Daniel’s trepidation, even outright fear, at telling the most powerful monarch on the planet that his days as mighty king were numbered. It wasn’t that Nebuchadnezzar wouldContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from Daniel, 17 June 2021 Today’s topic: Inevitable God”
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Practical Proverbial, from Jonah, 9 March 2021 Today’s topic: Toward Jerusalem
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ Jonah 2:4 (NIV). Since the days of Solomon, when Jews pray, they pray facing towards Jerusalem. Hundreds of years before Islam adopted this same custom, Jews worldwide were already doing it. Many still do today. Does it meanContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from Jonah, 9 March 2021 Today’s topic: Toward Jerusalem”
Practical Proverbial, from Jonah, 16 February 2021 Today’s topic: God and Ninevah
“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” Jonah 1:2 (NIV). Ninevah was a city founded by Noah’s grandson, Cush. Cush was one of the first full generation after the flood, and he would have been brought up hearing the eyewitness accounts of antediluvian Earth andContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from Jonah, 16 February 2021 Today’s topic: God and Ninevah”
Practical Proverbial, from 2 Peter, 22 October 2020. Today’s topic: Only Faith That Saves
Exciting News! Our new site is up and running! We will shortly be moving these posts over to it and sunsetting the previous site. Check out aspiringwriterdt.com so that you don’t miss out!!! If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it andContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from 2 Peter, 22 October 2020. Today’s topic: Only Faith That Saves”