Author: Scott

Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. 2 Kings 20:5   Occasionally, I’ll hear someone say that our prayer doesn’t change God, it changes us. Behind this statement is the idea that God is immutable – that…
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So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.  2 Kings 17:33 Whenever we meet new guys at the jail for our Sunday morning Bible study, my buddy and I tell our stories. As we meet new guys often,…
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But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived. 2 Kings 17:29 When I worked at the addiction treatment center where we treated those with gambling disorders, I would sit astounded…
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They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. 2 Kings 17:10-11 Driving to work recently,…
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And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the…
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And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before…
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 2 Kings 15:34-35 My wife recently sent me a story about another prominent Christian who’d fallen…
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Thus they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death. And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the LORD, while Athaliah reigned over the land. 2 Kings 11:2-3 Here’s a question that I never thought I’d never have to ask myself while living in this country:…
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But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin. 2 Kings 10:31 My wife wouldn’t want me to write about this, but she’s not awake yet so, I…
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And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” 2 Kings 9:32 If you’re like me, you’ve been watching events unfold in the news lately with some alarm and confusion. What is going on? How did we get here? As ICE agents move through the Twin Cities…
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