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“She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.” Mark 14:8-9 There are accounts in all four Gospels of a woman anointing Jesus with a precious ointment. In preparation for writing this, I read different commentaries, and none could agree exactly how many times Jesus was anointed. Since the Gospel writers were all writing from different perspectives, their stories were not always…
“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.” Proverbs 15:16-17 Recently my Daily Bible reading included the story of Ahab and his desire to obtain the vineyard of Naboth.…
“I don’t have nobody to blame but myself.” “Double negatives” are so confusing! There are also points in Scripture that are sometimes hard to grasp—that seem almost too good to be true. For example, some people think that the mercy of the Lord is applied only at the point of…
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“Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!” (Psalm 81:13 KJV) The more I am around children, the more I use the word “listen.” When I teach: Please listen. Listen carefully. Listen to the instructions. Look at me and listen. I have learned that nothing strains my patience and dances on my last nerve like being ignored. When my students don’t listen, the classroom gets chaotic, I get frustrated, we lose order, and we aren’t productive. Yet, I have to understand that these are children. Distractions are constant, and from their perspective, it’s…
“Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!” “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!” The Lord said to him, “I will be with you. And you will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man.” Judges 6:14-16 NLT I’ve been reading the story of Gideon these last few nights, and I keep coming back to one word “victory”…
Psalms 13:5 NLT “But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me.” My two year old daughter has recently learned the power of yelling “help” when she needs me. As a mother, my first instinct when I hear her desperate plea, is panic. The thought of her genuinely needing help can make me move faster than I normally can. When I finally reach her, she’s usually in a box that she can’t get out of, or she’s fallen over on her little trike and simply needs help getting up. The fact is, she knows…
Psalms 111:10 ESV “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have good understanding. His praise endures forever!” Psalms 33:8 “Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him” I love taking scripture and breaking it down. I had a family member recently ask me what it means to “fear the Lord” so my mind immediately went to the above scripture. I will be honest though, I always struggled to understand exactly what “fear” in this context meant. In this scripture, the biblical…
