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BIG DREAMS
Big Dreams…..Coming of the Messiah In today’s world, we have lost the visions God wants to give us through dreams. God still hungers to use that as a direction for tomorrow, but we tend to ignore that message. Time, after time, God has used dreams for me to see the next steps in life when that happens, I just…
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Land of Historic Isreal
Chapter 5 LAND OF ISRAEL, 1AD INTRODUCTION Never forget, you are someone’s gift. God has searched for a person like you to be His eyes and ears. God is counting on you. Be the someone another needs. Set an example. Don’t let the ways of the world cloud your vision. Instead of singular individuals, God wanted a homerun. The Israelites were…
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Importance of Roman Empire
POWER SHIFTS THE LEAD UP Political futures have not changed much in the last 2000 years. There is always a world power that is striving to maintain its position and even gain more authority. About 150 years before the birth of Christ, the Ptolemy reign was the superpower, but the Seleucid empire fought to be the dominant force. The battle for power began after Alexander the Great’s death. The Ptolemy empire was given control of Egypt and Palestine; the…
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A COMMON FOLK BIBLE
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMON FOLK BIBLE You are on Jeopardy and the topic is “Famous Individuals of Christianity.” You should be able to answer question one on Jesus’s mother or even the $400 question—Jesus’s most beloved disciple (John). Most could even guess at questions about Martin Luther (Justification by faith alone) or John Wycliffe (translated the…
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From Tragedy to Redemption the Israelites and the Messiah
Chapter 1 The Beginning One will never know why Yahweh—God—chose Abraham, then his son Isaac, then his grandson Jacob, and then his great-grandson Joseph as the bearers of Yahweh’s promises. If Yahweh was looking for a sinless individual, He missed the mark. From the start, sin followed. (Read the book of Genesis.) It is a perplexing question how…
FAITH & REFLECTIONS