S151P3 – When the sun sets: Jeremiah

Jer. 15:15-18 O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.  In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.  Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my…

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S151P2 – When the sun sets: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Dan. 3:13-15 Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought.  So they brought these men before the king.  Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?  Now…

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S151P1 – When the sun sets: Job

Job 1:18-19 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and…

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S150P6 – This precious Earth: changed by a word

2 Pet 3:3-7 [K]nowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.  They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming?  For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”  For they deliberately…

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S150P5 – This precious Earth: the Father’s bequest

Mt. 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Even in life, we must prepare for death.  For anyone who owns property, they understand that one day they will pass away and their stuff will remain.  Typically, those who can expect to inherit from an estate will be children or other family. …

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S150P4 – This precious Earth: a sign to all

Rom. 1:18-20 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have…

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S150P3 – This precious Earth: awaiting its renewal

Jn. 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. When we think of…

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A question of hope

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hbxqc-1290d4d Our hope is not in this life or this world, but do we all have the same measure of hope in our future promise?  Do the circumstances of this life guide our measure of hope?  Do they change how willing we are to let go of this life?  Should they?

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S150P2 – This precious Earth: God-given charge

Gen 1:28-30 And God blessed them.  And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”  And God said, “Behold, I have given…

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S150P1 – This precious Earth: something from nothing

Gen. 1:1-2 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. It might seem rather strange that Earth at one time was formless.  In the…

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