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| Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God. |
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This Day's Devotional Devotional Archives |
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Dropping the Security Blanket
By Bonnie Ricks
We don't know exactly how long Abram and Sarai were settled with Terah in Haran, but it was surely for a while. We know that Terah was 70 when Abram was born, and that Terah died in Haran at the age of 205. Since Abram was already married to Sarai when they left Ur, and Abram was 75 when he finally left Haran for Canaan, this gives us the |
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Getting the Most out of God's Word
By Bonnie Ricks
I don't know how many times I've heard people say, "I just don't understand the Bible. I don't get anything out of it. How can the Pastor (or teacher or friend) get so much information out of so few words?" Are you one of these people? Do you have problems getting all the meaning out of Bible stories? If so, maybe it's time you stopped and |
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Times of Transition
By Bonnie Ricks
Abram was already married to Sarai when he joined his father and set out for Canaan. Honoring his father, Terah, Abram left Ur of the Chaldeans, taking along Sarai and Lot, Abram's nephew. This group did not consist of just these four people, but of the entire household of Terah, along with servants and tents and camels and donkeys, household |
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Building Monuments
By Bonnie Ricks
The people of Babel were pretty full of themselves... so full, that they decided they deserved a monument to their own greatness. The tower they determined to build was probably a ziggurat, which was a common structure in Babylon at that time. A ziggurat looked sort of like a pyramid, with steps leading up all sides. Some of them were as much |
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God's Promise
By Bonnie Ricks
God had finally gotten His fill of mankind's rebellion and sinfulness, and brought that massive flood that covered the whole earth and that was twenty feet deeper than the top of the highest mountain. His wrath had wiped out every living human and every animal on earth except for the eight people and 50,000 to 75,000 animals on the ark. His |
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