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2 Conditions That Could Kill Your Thanksgiving

Blog

As we approach this Thanksgiving season, we’ll look at the things of life that might make it difficult to be grateful...

Understanding the Beatitudes (Devotional)

Devotional

Understand and apply the characteristics that Jesus calls "blessed."

Arrogance and the End of the Kingdoms (2 Chronicles 26)

Bible Commentary

How could king after king fall so easily into evil? The story of Uzziah may give us some insight. He ascends to the...

Moses’ Final Appeal for Obedience to God (Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20)

Bible Commentary

Moses concludes with a third speech, a final appeal for obedience to God’s covenant, which will result in human...

The Blessings of Obeying God’s Covenant (Deuteronomy 7:12-15; 28:2-12)

Bible Commentary

In case the commandments, statutes, and ordinances in God’s covenant might come to seem like nothing but a burden to...

Offering God our First Fruits (Numbers 15:20-21; 18:12-18)

Bible Commentary

Building on the sacrificial system described in Numbers 4 and 7, two passages in Numbers 15 and 18 describe the offering...

God Works Through the Fruitfulness of Childbearing (Ruth 4:13-18)

Bible Commentary

In Ruth 4:13, we encounter only the second instance in the book (in addition to Ruth 1:6) where an event is expressly...

God’s Blessing for All Nations (Jonah 1:16, 3:1-4:2)

Bible Commentary

Jonah disobeys God’s call because he objects to God’s intent to bless Israel’s adversaries, the nation of Assyria...

God Allows Satan to Destroy Job’s Prosperity (Job 1:13-22)

Bible Commentary

The problem of pain comes when times are hard. When we are passed over for promotion or lose a job, when we become...

Job’s Prosperity Acknowledged as God’s Blessing (Job 1:1-12)

Bible Commentary

At the beginning of the Book of Job we are introduced to an exceptionally prosperous farmer/rancher named Job. He is...

The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12)

Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount opens with the beatitudes—eight statements beginning with the word blessed.[1] This word...

Best of Daily Reflections: Is Faith the Key to Being Blessed by God?

Daily Reflection

Every now and then while I'm channel surfing on TV, I pause to listen to a preacher. And it's not uncommon to hear...