by David Keesling | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mark 5:40: “But they laughed at Him” (NIV). Observation: Jairus, an administrator of the local synagogue, had asked Jesus to lay hands on his dying twelve-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, at the house, mournful wails accompanying death had already begun. Jesus and Jairus...
by David Keesling | Sep 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Galatians 1:24: “And they praised God because of me” (NIV). Observation: In this opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he said he was “astonished” (Gal. 1: 6) that people he had only recently had a hand in bringing to Christ are so readily...
by David Keesling | Sep 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 2:5: “Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on” (NIV). Observation: Israel had begun their desert wanderings under God’s specific direction. In Deuteronomy 2:4, He had said they were about...
by David Keesling | Sep 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 1:31: “There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son” (NIV). Observation: At the edge of the Promised Land, Moses began summarizing the reasons for the Israelites’ long desert exile—until all in the previous generation...
by David Keesling | Sep 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 1:3: “Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded concerning them” (NIV). Observation: Forty years of wandering in the desert had ended, and Moses was proclaiming God’s precepts to the Israelites. Key enemies had been defeated, and...
