Tag: consequences

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Daniel 3:1-18 TO CHEW ON: "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Psalm 51:1-19 TO CHEW ON: "My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise." Psalm 51:17 After Nathan had talked to David, he felt terrible. Now he knew how seriously God took what he had done. It wasn’t just some little "mistake." It ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Chronicles 12:1-14 TO CHEW ON: "Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed there was some good in Judah." 2 Chronicles 12:12 We left the story of Rehoboam a while back. He was the son of Solomon who said he would be ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Joel 2:12-19 TO CHEW ON: "Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity." Joel 2:13 Suppose you did something bad like got mad at your little sister a...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Daniel 5:1-6 TO CHEW ON: "Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were kno...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Leviticus 17:11 TO CHEW ON: "For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life." Leviticus 17:11 Moses had been up on the mountain with God for a long time and God...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Numbers 14:1-12, 20-23 TO CHEW ON: "Not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it." Numbers 14:23When the twelve spies came back from Canaan, only two thought they could conquer the people and m...

TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 19:12-29 TO CHEW ON: "The two men said to Lot, 'Do you have anyone else here...? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.'” Genesis 19:12, 13 When the two ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 TO CHEW ON: And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 The Bible is a story of a fight. The fight is between light and darkness, love...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Romans 8:5-11 TO CHEW ON: The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:6 Most vehicles, machines and toys have controls. Can you match the object with its controls? 1. Car ____ 4. Bike ____ 2. Computer ____ 5. Video Game ____ 3...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 2:11-15 TO CHEW ON: "The man said, 'Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?' Then Moses was afraid and thought, What I did must have become known." Exodus 2:14 Fast forward 40 years. Moses was all grown up. Though he wa...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 11:26-40 TO CHEW ON: "Then he said to Jeroboam, 'Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the Lord, the God if Israel, says: "See I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hands and give you ten tribes." ’ ” 1 Kings 11:31 Solomon ruled for many years. Though God ...