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At Your Lowest Point, God Will Redeem

slytle — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:50:25 +0000

I was a small child, and David was one of my heroes. I loved the story of how little David killed that big ol’ giant.

My dad had given me a neat bowie knife that he had made of a piece of sharpened steel and a bone handle. I would take that knife [...]

Acts 2:16-21: The Coming of the Holy Spirit

slytle — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:00:14 +0000

Jesus’ last words in the book of Acts were “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8 ESV) This comes true on the day of Pentecost in [...]

Psalm 150: Worship Him!

slytle — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:00:18 +0000

Genre and Meaning

Psalm 150 is the last Psalm. Appropriately, it ends the book of Psalms by answering the “where” , “why” , “how” , and “who” of worship. The meaning of this Psalm is that God is to be praised everywhere, by everyone, using everything available to them, because of what God does [...]

Isaiah 13: The Destruction of Babylon

slytle — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:00:50 +0000

Genre and Meaning

Isaiah 13 is an oracle prophesy against the kingdom of Babylon. There is some controversy regarding the oracle. Babylon is only mentioned in the first verse and again in the last section of the chapter. Some would argue that, due to the fact that “it was the Medes who destroyed Nenevah, the [...]

The Proverbs 31 Woman

slytle — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:00:51 +0000

Proverbs 31:10-31 is a cluster proverb organized as an Alphabetic Acrostic poem. According to Fox’s commentary, it is “best classified as an encomium. The encomium, best known from Greco-Roman lyric and rhetoric, is a declaration of lofty praise for a person or a type of person.” [1] This poem is in [...]

Ezekiel’s Message for Today

slytle — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:55:01 +0000

The sins of Ezekiel’s day sound very much like the sins of today.

Ezek. 22:9 There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. Ezek. 22:10 In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who [...]

God’s Love and Discipline

slytle — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:42:14 +0000

I love the book of Jeremiah. Along with my life verses (Jeremiah 29:11-14a) there are many nuggets of truth.

Right from the beginning we see God making a case for the personhood of the unborn.

Jer. 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated [...]

Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches

slytle — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:35:46 +0000

Prov. 30:7-9

“Two things I ask of you, O LORD; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ” ˜Who is the LORD?’ Or [...]

1 Corinthians 13:3

slytle — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:06:10 +0000

I have to memorize 1 Corinthians 13 for my PS221 Marriage and the Family class this semester. I thought it would help in that memorization to post the verses here with my personal interpretation.

The Scripture:

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my [...]

1 Corinthians 13:2

slytle — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:59:11 +0000

I have to memorize 1 Corinthians 13 for my PS221 Marriage and the Family class this semester. I thought it would help in that memorization to post the verses here with my personal interpretation.

The Scripture:

If I have the gift of prophesy and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if [...]