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Posts tagged "vigilance"

A Map To Find Our Way Home

Old Testament Reflection

It’s hard to imagine how it would feel to be told that your children will not follow the Lord. Moses has invested his whole life into the “saving” of God’s people. They have been rescued from Egypt, they have been taught in the wilderness, and now they are about to be given the Promised Land. But even still, they will not choose the Lord with their whole heart.

God sees this future and he instructs Moses to write a song.

Read More song, drifting, vigilance, testimony

Living in “the Now,” not “the Know”

New Testament Reflection

In Uganda, where my family and I have lived for some years, night guards are commonly hired. Institutions, businesses or even private residences hire guards for protection from thieves who otherwise would carry out their business without resistance or fear.

Everyone needs to be alert. And nobody wants a guard who just wants to sleep the night away.

Read More vigilance, end times, today

Opposition Seems to Never Cease

With the report that the walls were completely rebuilt (6:15), the next thing one would expect would be a report of the celebration that the task was completed, and done in record time. But instead, the narrative moves in a different direction. Although verse 16 recounts the general effect among the enemies …

Read More enemy, vigilance, opposition


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