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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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And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?” 2 Kings 9:22 When we applied for our last home loan, our name must have ended up on some database where every…
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And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free,…
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Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.” 2 Kings 17:2 For years, my wife and kids…
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Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king’s household.” 2 Kings 7:9 In preparation for today’s blog, I asked my…
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If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall…
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And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may…
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So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel. 2 Kings 6:23 When I played high school football for the Beresford Watchdogs – yes, the…
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He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 1 Kings 6:16 During my college years, I worked as a camp counselor for a couple of summers, but I wasn’t originally hired as a counselor. Rather, I was hired as the lifeguard. So, during…
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Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. 2 Kings 6:17  During my elementary school years. my mom taught in…
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