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I learn and see things visually so I can easily imagine Jerusalem and the Temple back in the days of its greatest glory...with the presence and power of God like a cloud hovering over the Ark of the Covenant and…
I learn and see things visually so I can easily imagine Jerusalem and the Temple back in the days of its greatest glory...with the presence and power of God like a cloud hovering over the Ark of the Covenant and…
I’m in 2 Chronicles 32, a chapter that gets to me every time I read it. It follows 3 whole chapters jammed full of King Hezekiah (seemingly at his own initiative, reacting possibly to witnessing the collapse of the nation…
A good friend and professor of Old Testament Studies at Lee University, Dr. Rickie Moore, has done some amazing work on the prophets of the Old Testament. A paper he presented at an academic forum identified prophets as messengers, minstrels,…
For the last few decades now, life in America has been reasonably peaceful. Most of us, by comparison with the rest of the world, have lived comfortable, easy lives. Only the occasional weather anomaly or personal health or financial crisis…
So, I’m in 2 Chronicles in my morning quiet time and frankly it’s depressing. Israel started well with King David, even considering his failures, David’s heart was after God. Solomon started well but ended dismally. Then, after Solomon, king after…
It’s a marathon, not a sprint. We’ve all heard that said about the Christian life...and it’s really true. King Asa accelerated out of the starting blocks like Usain Bolt. Early in his reign over Judah he removed foreign altars and…
I love riding roller coasters. The wilder the better. A slow and deliberate climb to dizzying heights. Then the bottom drops out from under you and you plummet from the mountain top to the lowest point of the ride in…
You know... you have to be superbly arrogant or blatantly deceived to not have faith in God and His word. The cross-generational, cross-textual verifications of so much of Scripture really render the Bible beyond reasonable refutation. My “epistles”…
Westgate has had weekly prayer meetings, dedicated to prayer, for 28 years now. And, for most of those years, any sense of urgency in prayer was either graciously provided by the Holy Spirit or was the product of crisis in…