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Matthew 2:13–18, Luke 2:39 We are going through all four Gospels in chronological order, we finally come to one of the first discrepancies in the Gospels themselves. More importantly, we will look at how each of us are more like the murderer King Herod than the faithful Joseph. 13 After they were gone, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about

Matthew 2:1–12 (HCSB) 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived unexpectedly in Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.” 3 When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born. 5 “In B

From my book, Authentic Prayer. Prayer is and remains the native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. Thomas Carlyle In some form or another, prayer is found everywhere. It is recorded in every history and among all people groups across the planet. From the Vikings of the Netherlands to Cherokee Indians of the Great Plains to the Hindus of India; as long as we have been communicating with one another, we have been trying to communicate with a higher power. Even Homer’s ep

We have been learning how to study the wisdom texts on your own and part of this is knowing that the books of wisdom are not just concerned with deep theology and hypothetical things, but also, practical ways to live today, Here are four more principles that we need to embrace that come directly from God’s wisdom and we can get these four principles from what some people call the most depressing and existential book in all of the bible; Ecclesiastes 9:1-12. 1. There is one fa