by David Keesling | Jan 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
1 Peter 3:3-4 “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment…Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight” (NIV). Observation: These verses are excerpted from a longer...
by David Keesling | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
James 4:5 “Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit He caused to live in us envies intensely?” (NIV). Observation: In verse 4 James referred to an “adulterous” people, a people whose hearts and minds have become wedded to the world’s rewards...
by David Keesling | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Hebrews 9:8 “The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most High Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was standing” (NIV). Observation: The first tabernacle, built at God’s direction under Moses’s leadership, had been...
by David Keesling | Jan 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Psalm 83:5 “With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you” (NIV). Observation: Ten nations were said to be plotting Israel’s destruction. The writer’s appeal for their defeat is colorful, to say the least; he asks that God make them “like refuse...
by David Keesling | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Hosea 13:5-6 “I cared for you in the desert, in the land of burning heat. When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they became satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me” (NIV). Observation: God had miraculously delivered Israel from Egypt’s bondage,...
