Looks are not everything. A beautiful young woman walks in a bar with her boyfriend and says to him, “You sure are lucky to be with me. I am a Maserati in a world of Kia’s.” Bemused the man replies, “What? You mean overpriced, unreliable and will lose half of…
13 Look, my eye has seen it all; my ear has heard and understood it.2 Just as you know, I also know; I’m not inferior to you.3 But I want to speak to the Almighty; I would gladly present my case to God. … 18 Look, I have laid out my case; I know that I’m innocent. ~Job…
Is it a sin if you get thirsty on the Day of Atonement? Is it a sin if you hunger on that day or any other day? If you answered “no” to any of those questions, then why would it have been wrong for Jesus to have turned stones into…
16 For everything that belongs to[a] the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world. ~1Jn 2:16 (HCSB) John writes that there are three basic categories of temptation. Each of these was used in the initial temptation of…
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. ~Heb 4:15 (NIV) OK, I know I was going to do a four-part series on the…
The Exodus was not the ending but the beginning, and it started in the #BiblicalWilderness. The wilderness appears in many stories and prophecies in the Bible. Some scholars claim that the wilderness is a place of testing, and they cite the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness for 40 days…