Deuteronomy 2: Knowing God
Do you know who God is? Deuteronomy 2 shows that knowing God is key to obeying Him out of trust and reverential awe.
Do you know who God is? Deuteronomy 2 shows that knowing God is key to obeying Him out of trust and reverential awe.
Which wisdom do you hold by: live and learn or learn and live? The first looks to action before instruction, but the second involves godly humility.
The book of Proverbs teaches us practical righteousness. Its wide array of topics is just as relevant now as it was when it was first written.
Insight and knowledge go hand in hand with practical righteousness. The book of Proverbs shows us how the fear of the Lord leads us to walk in wisdom.
What do you do when your security vanishes and enemies surround you? The Israelites faced this problem, but they had forgotten that God always provides and protects His people.
Dr. Boa returns to the Gospel of John, discussing Jesus’s invitation to us to pursue him above all other things.
Peter continues to prepare his readers for upcoming persecution and opposition. He encourages them to always be prepared to make a defense for the hope that is in them. Dr. Boa expounds on this notion of turning from fear to faith and sanctifying Christ as Lord in our hearts so that the shalom within us becomes evident to others.
Peter transitions from addressing the richness of our salvation in Christ to practical application and the pulls that wage war against our souls. Dr. Boa discusses this inner-outward conflict that we all encounter and encourages us to live in such a way that our words and our works and our lives and our lips coincide.
We all have broken stories and Peter wants us to understand that we can rewrite our story. We can imbed our story in a greater narrative that begins and ends well. When we are a part of God’s story our life matters. When we keep an eternal perspective we understand that the adversity and afflictions of this life will only be brief and the glory will endure.
Peter admonishes his readers to have an uplook and an outlook.. Our uplook determines our outlook and our outlook determines our behavior. As we look up, we are to apply what we see. We are called to become a people who manifest the new life in this present world.
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