Sunday, April 16, 2023

With Christ in the School of Prayer: excerpt 174

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  T his post continues a series of excerpts from  With Christ in the School of Prayer , by  Andrew Murray . I do this, not because I'm a...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Women of the Bible: the Queen of Sheba

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2 Chronicles 9:1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Women of the Bible: Priscilla

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Acts 18:1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. 2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race,...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Women of the Bible: Potiphar's wife

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Genesis 39:1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Sunspots 931

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to others*: Environment: A Conversation writer says that there i...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Women of the Bible: Phoebe

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Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant [text note: or deacon] of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, 2 that you re...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Women of the Bible: Philip's daughters

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Acts 21:7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day. 8 On the...
Sunday, April 09, 2023

With Christ in the School of Prayer, excerpt 173

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T his post continues a series of excerpts from  With Christ in the School of Prayer , by  Andrew Murray . I do this, not because I'm a p...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Sunspots 930

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to others:* Christianity: The Natural Historian considers LeBron James i...
Monday, April 03, 2023

Women of the Bible: Paul's sister

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Actually, the Bible says almost nothing about Paul's sister, except that she had a son. See here for more on Paul’s relatives. Acts 2...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray, excerpt 172

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T his post continues a series of excerpts from  With Christ in the School of Prayer , by  Andrew Murray . I do this, not because I'm a p...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Women of the Bible: Naomi

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Ruth 2:1 Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. 2 Ruth the Moabit...

Women of the Bible: Orpah

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Here's all we know about Orpah: Ruth 1:1 In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Women of the Bible: Miriam

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Numbers 26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the fami...

Sunspots 929

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to others*: Christianity: An article in Christianity Today , which argues, wi...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Women of the Bible: Mrs. Zacchaeus

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Previous posts have tried to remind readers of various women, some in the Bible, but not named ,  and some named, but mentioned only in part...

Women of the Bible: Naaman's wife's servant girl

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I seemed to have ignored the alphabet again. Sorry. The girl in this story gets only two verses, but they are important -- God works even fo...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray, excerpt 171

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T his post continues a series of excerpts from  With Christ in the School of Prayer , by  Andrew Murray . I do this, not because I'm a ...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Women of the Bible: Noadiah

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Nehemiah 6:10   I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us...