Tag: consequences
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Which?
2 Samuel 24:12 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’” I’ve been reading a collection of essays by the late British pastor F. W. Boreham. What an awesome writer he was! One of his essays is curiously entitled, “That…
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When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
1 Samuel 4:21-22 “And she named the child Ichabod, saying, ‘The glory has departed from Israel!’ because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. And she said, ‘The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.’” You’ve heard the saying, “The chickens have come home to roost.” It…
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Since
1 John 4:11 “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” One of the sayings many children hear from their parents is “You know better than that!” What this is typically referring to is that because a child has been told the consequences of certain behaviors – whether good or bad…