the challenge of the bible

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in 2006 i came up with an idea of how i could get myself to read through the Bible on a regular and consistent basis. this is much tougher than you would think for a guy who spent the first three weeks of his married life unknowingly ignoring his wife because he was so used…

quick study: numbers | proverbs | ephesians

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Numbers 24-25; Proverb 17; Ephesians 5-6 highlights – Numbers 24:13; Proverb 17:7; 17:28; Ephesians 5:9; 5:15; 5:17 at first when i was reading through Numbers i was not entirely sure what i was supposes to be getting out of this reading. two chapters of prophecy and smiting – but as i continued reading the rest…

twenty cents (a paradigm)

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Most commentaries take these verses to be very straightforward. That is to say that the battle Christians face isn’t necessarily with each other, or more specifically with non-Christians, rather it is both a spiritual battle between ourselves and other spiritual forces as well as between angelic and demonic forces.