Categories

• "Turn the other c."
• "What if" Scenarios
• "What Ifs"
• 4-H
• A $740 Pie
• A c. of attitude
• A deceptive c. of a.
• a modern-day p.
• A Mother's I.
• A nudge from the Spirit to W.A.B.
• A P. For Serving God
• A quiet heroine
• a Roman c. who amazed Jesus
• a s. personality, John Q. Adams
• Aaron limited access to the Holy of Holies
• Abortion
• Abraham
• Abraham Finding a Wife For His Son
• Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham's unnamed servant
• Abraham; God's promise to Abraham
• Absalom
• Abuse
• Abused
• Accident
• Accidents
• Accomodating
• Achievement, first achievement
• Achievements
• Achieving mental r.
• Action International Ministries
• Acts
• Acts 10 & 11
• Acts 10:23 & 11:12
• Acts 12:8-10
• Acts 2
• Adams, bright and out-going Louisa Catherine Adams
• Adams, John Quincy, 6th president of the United States
• Adaptability
• Adapting, adjusting and flexible
• Adding to or taking away from the Bible
• Adjusting my thinking
• Admitting something
• Advantage
• Adventure
• Affair of a husband
• Affection
• Affirmation can turn idolatrous
• African Need
• Agagite; King Agag
• Agreement that needed changing
• Ahimaaz was s.
• Ahimaaz, son of Zadok the priest
• Ahio, Nadab and Abihu – early deaths
• Airpower
• Alcoholism
• Alfred Nobel
• Alive to God
• all born s. from God
• All humanity n.
• Allowing parents to direct
• Almost beyond what a person could endure
• Amateur; “This is how amateurs get killed.”
• Amazed
• Ambition gone awry
• America declining
• American fears of Soviet Russia
• American Football
• American presidents
• America’s a.i. did not change
• Ammonites
• An appeal to the E. of Moses
• an elderly gentleman
• An emotional p.
• An O. of History
• An unfortunate k.
• Anathema; Benedict Arnold viewed as a Judas
• Andrews, Julie
• Angelic jailbreak
• Angels Worshipping God
• Animals killed in the Old Testament
• Annihilate Israel; efforts to Annihilate Israel
• Another's world
• Answered p.
• Answering John's doubts
• Anti-Semitism
• Anxiety overcome by Martin Luther
• Anyone can do it
• Apologetics
• Apostles
• Appearances; guarding one's appearance
• Application to become Job's comforter
• Applied; prayers applied by God
• Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Archaeology
• Arnold, Benedict, General B.A., the American traitor
• Arnold, the traitor Benedict A.
• Arrogance, Haman’s a.
• Arrogance; Xerxes a.
• Arrogant, unchangeable people
• article on Charles Spurgeon
• Artwork
• Asceticism
• Asceticism unsatisfying
• Assassination: Bigthana and Teresh plot
• asserting yourself on w.i.
• Assisting a Friend
• Assitance
• Associates along with us to c.
• Assuming on others
• Assumptions
• Astronaut corps
• Astronaut John Glenn
• Atlantic Voyage
• Atone for sin
• Atonement
• Atonement; full and final a.
• Atoning Death of Jesus Christ
• Attending church
• Attention; holding the audience
• Attitude governs value
• Attitude is everything
• Auto Accident
• Auto Industry
• Availability to all
• Aviation of World War II
• Awareness/Unawareness
• B. helping a boy experience success
• Backing off
• Backsliding
• Bad kings
• Balance
• Balancing
• Barely Enough
• Baseball
• Battle of the Little Big Horn 1876
• Battling for an idea whose time had come
• bazaar, outlandish i.
• Be grateful for l.
• Be-Attitude
• Beauty Shoppe
• Became our sin; Jesus b.o.s.
• Becoming b.
• Becoming spiritually s.
• Becoming w.
• Being close to God
• Being criticized
• Being forgiven
• Being in community
• Being Like Jesus Christ
• Being r.
• Being s. required to serve God
• Being taken a. of
• Being with the poor
• Believe
• Believe the bible
• Belonging
• Belonging to each other
• Benefit unequal to the expenditure
• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Franklin ridiculed
• Benjamin Franklin's youth
• Benjamin, youngest son of Jacob
• Bernoulli's principle of f.
• Best for last
• Betrayal
• Beyond your ability and experience
• Bible
• Bible chronology
• Bible h.
• Bible; authority and claim to inspiration
• Biblical fellowship; a definition
• Biblical Teachings
• Biden
• Biden; President Joe Biden
• Big moment
• Big results vs. Godly Results
• Bigger Picture
• Bigger picture; accepting a project from Dad
• Billy Mitchell
• Bitterness
• Black Civil Right
• Blemishes
• Blind; legally blind but “seeing” well
• Boaz
• Boils
• Boldness; Esther’s b.
• Books to Cuba
• Boredom
• Bossy
• Boston and Halifax
• Bow; Mordecai refused to b.
• Bribing people to get a following
• Brick; bricking our own home
• Bride-price
• Briggs Meyer Personality Test
• Brilliance
• British monarchy
• British r.
• British royalty treated like gods
• Broken
• Bulldog Personality of Winston Churchill
• Bullet
• Bullet I deserve
• Bullet; Jesus took the bullet I deserve
• Bully
• Bullying
• Bunker
• Bush
• Calculating the cost of our sin
• California; finding Christ on a Californian campus
• Call; does a need constitute God's will?
• Cancer taking a woman’s life
• Canonicity
• Can’t do without
• Capable wife
• Captivity; Jewish 70 year c.
• care of d. unequally distributed
• Caring For Children
• Caring for others
• Celebrating; Jews c. like Christmas
• Centurion
• ceremonies and rituals u
• Certainty
• Change
• Change (s, ing, ed)
• Change in schedule
• Change of arrangement
• Changing social attitude
• Charles Spurgeon, London preacher
• Charlotte
• Chauvin, Derek
• Cheat
• Cheek
• Cheerful and optimistic
• Cheerful spirit
• Child deaths
• Childbearing; yearning for childbearing
• Childhood experiences having an impact years later
• Children
• Children as an object lesson
• Children being kind
• Children serving God
• child’s focus on themselves
• Choice
• Choosing to be grateful
• Christian education material
• Christian Encouragement
• Christian Living
• Christian school Fund raiser
• Christian service means being fueled by fumes
• Christians o. by God
• Chronicles and Kings; 1 Chronicles 17 & 1 Kings 8:18
• Chronology of Moses' Trips up Mt. Sinai
• Church
• Church attendance
• Church culture wars
• Church pillar that no one missed
• Churches and ministries taking advantage
• Churchill, Winston
• Citizens “became Jews”
• City Gates
• City gates in Old Testament times
• Civil War
• Classifications superseded by being alive to God
• Clean, pure, forgiven, righteous
• Clergymen’s elaborate dress
• Co-Exist
• Coffee that saved a marriage
• Coincidences
• College students; questions of c. s.
• Colonial government
• Colossians
• Colossians 1:11
• Comet
• Comfortable theology
• Commerce and business conducted
• Common to man; I Corinthians 10:13
• Communication of children limited
• Community
• Community and Support
• Comparison
• Compassion
• Compensation for Leah
• Competing against adverse odds
• Competition
• Competition between sisters
• Competition, unhealthy c.
• Competition; benign competition with God
• Complain
• Complaining
• Conception
• Conclusions
• Conclusions; coming to the right conclusions
• Confidence in the listener
• Confined for over one year
• Confirm
• Conflict Resolution
• Confronting people
• Confused, doubting and/or afflicted
• Connecting
• Connecting with Children
• Connecting with one's sacrifice
• Conscientious
• Consulting
• Context
• Contradictions; living with c.
• Contrast between Proverbs and Job
• Control; being under God's control
• Control; who is in c. of your life
• Convinced I am r. when I am actually wrong
• Convinced I am right, when actually w.

• Corinthians
• Corinthians; I Corinthians 14:37
• Cornelius
• Correcting others
• Cost
• Counsel
• Countable
• Creation scientism
• Creation vs. evolution
• Creativity
• Credit
• Critical people
• Critical rather than grateful
• Critics not knowing what they are talking about
• Critics set out to s. Benedict Arnold
• Cross
• Crushed by disapproval
• Cuba
• Cuba – baseball for kids
• Cuba; speaking in C.
• Cuban Christian; a Cuban conclusions
• Cuban poverty
• Cultural and religious clashes
• Culture
• Customs forms
• Customs; overlooked by Biblical c.
• Cyrus’ permission to return to Jerusalem
• D. of many early colonists
• Dangerous; close to God can be dangerous
• David, seeking to be sympathetic, was misunderstood
• David, wise individualism
• Death
• Death not the u.
• Death of j.
• Deceived
• Deceiver
• Deception
• Deception as a part of spiritual warfare
• Deception in entertainment
• Deception in food containers
• Default setting of human nature
• Defeated for the presidency
• defeating negative f.
• Defining Moment
• Delay
• Delay in talking over a problem
• Deliverance
• Delivery of a message; variety
• Dependence
• Desperate to marry
• Despising your birthright (things that are valuable)
• Destiny; date with d.
• Destruction
• Deuteronomy 28 – 30
• Deuteronomy 29:29
• Development; mental d.
• Died; some died by violating God's presence
• Differences in C.
• Different
• different p. attracted to each other
• Differently; handling a situation differently
• Difficulty g.u.
• Difficulty of changing
• Dignity
• Diligence
• Directing another person's life
• Directionless
• Disabled
• Disadvantaged
• Disappointment
• Disaster
• Discipline
• Discovering new depth
• Discovery
• Disneyland
• Disobedience; Vashti’s d.
• Disobedient; healed man disobedient to the Lord Jesus
• Distraction
• Division
• Dog
• Doggy
• Dogs
• Doing one's d.
• doing small things
• Doing to others the evil done to us
• Dominate
• Dominating your sons / daughters
• Don't c.
• Don't quit
• don’t become an H.
• Doubt
• Downfall; Haman’s d.
• Dream revelation: how we know it was from satan
• Drew H's $740 Pie
• Driven
• Drunkenness, why Persians drank so much
• Due diligence
• Dull Because of Overuse
• Dullness of mind
• Dumb
• Dutch sea captain
• Duty
• Duty to found a colony
• Each afraid of the other
• Each of us totally responsible
• Eagerness to serve
• Early deaths
• Earn salvation
• Ecstatic frenzy as a means of communication
• Edict, a second e.
• Edicts; irreversible e.
• Effective; more effective as a congressman than as president
• Ego
• Elders; the blessing of e.
• Election
• EliBiPhar
• Elijah fits the "warrior, wounded, wisdom" pattern
• Elimelech
• Eliphaz fooled into claiming a godly origin
• Elizabeth Edwards
• Elizabeth Layton Nel
• Embarrassing details
• Emotional Strength
• Empathy
• Empowerment and Advocacy
• Emptiness on the inside
• Empty search
• Endurance
• Engagement
• Enjoying children
• Enjoying the c. to modern conveniences
• Enormous need – hardship, injustice, refugees
• Entrance into ancient cities
• Entrance to O.T. communities
• Envy
• Ephesians 2:8-10
• Ephesians 5:21
• Erfurt, Germany
• Esau
• Eschatology
• Essential
• Establishing what was done and said and what happened
• Esther
• Esther approaches the king a second time
• Esther; Hadassah’s Persian name
• Eunuch
• European theater of World War II
• Evening service; cancel the e.s.
• Events; seemingly unrelated e.
• every n.t.l. and p.
• Everyman
• everything there is to k.
• Evidence
• Evidence for God
• Evil still exists
• Evolution is a faith-based, secular religion
• Examples of lack of s.a.
• Excuses
• Exempt
• Exhaustion
• Exodus
• Exodus 19:4
• Exodus 32:10
• Exodus chronology of Moses on Mt. Sinai
• Expectation Management
• Expectations
• Expected
• Experience
• Experiencing the s.
• Explosives
• Extreme
• Extreme exertion
• extreme giftedness
• Extreme service to our nation
• Fail; I will not fail where others have
• Failure to see his own sin
• Faint cries for help
• Fairness
• Faith
• Faith and Devotion
• Faith and Theology
• Faith and Trust in God
• Faith building
• Faith frontier
• Faith to overcome a limitation
• Faith victory by a whisker
• Faith; statement of f.
• Faithful building of the ark
• False prophets speaking lies
• Familiarity; using what we know
• Family devotions
• Family man
• Family relationships
• Family tensions
• Family-ness
• Famine
• fast response
• Fasting
• Favorites
• Favoritism
• Fear
• Fear of living on missionary support
• Fear of the Unknown
• Feasting
• feeling i. in a crowd
• Feeling rejected
• Feeling second best
• Feelings
• Fellowship; a definition of fellowship
• Fellowship; the value of fellowship
• Finding God's Will
• Finding someone you've never met
• Fired
• First, last; last, first
• First-time home ownership
• Flesh; the spirt and flesh at war
• Flexibility
• Flight
• Flood
• Focus Publishing; Bemidji, Minnesota
• Focusing on a greater cause
• follow the e. wherever it goes
• Food mostly gone
• Foolish conclusion
• Foolish spending
• foolish to e. those more gifted
• Foolish young man, racing on the streets
• Football
• Forgive(ness)
• Forgiven little, love little; Forgiven much, love much
• Formative experiences
• Freedom from anxiety and fear
• Freedom from competition
• Freedom in Christ
• Freedom in God's forgiveness
• Freedom; claiming freedom, we end up in bondage
• Fretting about injustice
• Friends
• Friends counsel to OSCs
• Full atonement
• Fun
• Functioning according to the Spirit of God
• Fund raiser
• Funeral
• Future
• Galations 2 – Peter Withdrew From Gentile Christians
• Gallows; built for Mordecai
• Gallows; excessive height of g.
• Garment; spread the corner of your g.
• Gate: the king’s g.
• Geezer
• General Motors
• Generation; one generation dominating another
• Generational sins
• Generations differ
• Generosity
• Genesis 16-21
• Genesis 22
• Genesis 24
• Genesis 24-27
• Genesis 25 & 26
• Genesis 38 & 44
• Gentile Pentecost in Acts 10
• Gentiles attaching themselves to Israel
• George
• George Floyd
• Getting all that we should
• getting back into G. good graces
• Getting c.
• Giandomenico Picco – U.N. negotiator
• Gift of Time
• Gifting
• Gifts
• Gifts inventories
• Give, given, gave
• GIve, given, gave, giving
• Giving
• Giving more c. than we think is deserved
• giving up human s.
• Giving up long before you die
• Gleaning
• Glitter and pomp; unbecoming
• Glory
• Go to hurting friends
• Goals
• God at work in all lives
• God b.
• god complex
• God could have prevented an a.
• God does e.
• God doing something n.
• God generous
• God Has No F.
• God is able to time events right
• God is humble; stays out of sight
• God is not obvious
• God keeping HIs own from foolishness
• God not against you, even though it seems He is
• God preventing His own from doing evil
• God protecting HIs own
• God runs his creation differently
• God saying "No"
• God t. Moses
• God teaching me
• God's attitude toward us
• God's blessing on Rachel and Leah (12 sons of Israel)
• God's correction of critical people
• God's grace in finding someone
• God's grace reaching all believers
• God's guidance
• God's l.
• God's perspective more comprehensive
• God's Power in Ordinary People
• God's providence
• God's sovereignty
• God's Value Structure Different Than Ours
• God's will
• God, evidence for God
• God; how God speaks to us
• God; main character of the book though never named
• God; no games with God
• God; what God is doing
• God; what God is doing through wounding us
• Godly attitudes
• Godly discipline
• gods we own
• God’s
• God’s balancing answer to the simplicity and optimism of Proverbs
• God’s call to missions
• God’s gentle, thorough preparation for change
• God’s purposes for the o.
• God’s sovereignty
• God’s will; sensing G. w.
• going w. another to establish what was said and done and what happened
• Golden retrievers
• Golden Rule
• Goliath, the Philistine champion
• Good kings
• Good marriage
• Gospel to the poor
• Gospel, expansive, dynamic
• Gossipy tabloids
• Got Me In
• Grace builders
• Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Granddaughters
• Grandparenting
• Gratefulness
• Gratitude
• Gratitude perfumes everything
• Greatest challenge a human ego has ever faced
• Grief
• Grieving the death of a child
• Growing Up
• Guidance through scripture
• Guilt
• Guilty
• Half-full down to empty
• Halifax Explosion, 1917
• Haman
• Hamanite
• Haman’s hatred and pride
• Handing a gruff personality
• Happiness
• Hard peace
• Hard Work
• Hardhearted; was Esther h.
• hardship not because of s.
• Hate; the Biblical origins of hate
• Hatred for political leaders
• Hazardous; too near to the Lord can be hazardous
• Healthy individuality
• Hearing
• Heart for God
• Heaven
• Heaven a large place
• Held accountable
• Help; church members help pastor get his own house.
• Helpfulness
• Helpfulness without being asked
• helping a boy experience s.
• Helping others without being asked
• Helping Out God
• Helping the helpless
• Heroine
• Hidden
• Hidden Manna
• Historical-grammatical interpretation
• History
• History Balancing Itself
• History of
• Hixson; Kathryn
• Hollywood
• Holy Spirit
• Holy Spirit Guidance
• Holy Spirit illumination
• Homeownership
• Honesty
• Honesty comes before being generous
• Hoppenworth
• Hospitality
• Hospitality in Singapore
• Housekeeping
• How God applied general prayers
• How long will my punishment last?
• how many redeemed / lost u.
• how to know we are o. o. c.
• How to start an evangelistic conversation
• Human approval idolatrous
• Human god-ness
• Human Nature
• human r.
• Humanity of a high mountain ledge
• Humanity total ruined
• Humanity unaware
• Humble enough to seek counsel
• Humble home
• Humility
• Humility in service
• Humility of Moses
• Humility; John the Baptist
• Humor in the pulpit
• Humor softens the hard spots
• Humvee
• Hunger
• Husband; unemotional health
• Husband’s leadership role in marriage
• Hypocrisy
• Hypocrites in church
• I am the resurrection
• I Corinthians 11:10
• I Corinthians 16:9
• I Corinthians 6:19-20
• I Samuel 17:38 & 39
• Idealism
• Identifying with others
• Identity
• Idolatry
• Idolatry; make a child into an idol
• II Corinthians 5:4
• II Peter 1:3
• Illumination
• Illusion; the i. of progress
• Illustrations
• Iloilo, Philippines
• Imagination
• Imbalance in favor of a ministry, church
• Immediate gratification
• Immediate response
• Immorality of Hollywood stars
• Impatience
• Impeachment of a president
• Implied
• importance of v. in speaking
• Imposing your will on others
• Impossible
• In
• Inadequacy
• Inconsistency
• Independence from God
• Independence; foolish i.
• Individualism
• Individuality
• Inferiority
• Influence
• Influence; falling under another's i.
• Influencing one's children
• Inheritance in Bible times; importance of i. i. B. t.
• Inherited roles
• Initiative
• Initiative and being entrepreneurial
• Injured
• Injustice; how do we face it?
• Insanity
• Insecure
• Insensitivity
• Insesure
• Insight
• Inspiration
• Inspiration; Bible definition of I.
• Interpretation of s.e.
• Interpreting circumstances differently
• Interpreting our circumstances correctly
• interpreting things in c
• Intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ
• Intimidated by a chairman of the board
• Intimidation
• Into the Unknown
• Intoxicating; being the center of attention i.
• Investing time, love, and energy
• Invisible
• Invited to leave
• Irrational concern
• Isaac
• Ishmael, the extended family of Ishmael
• Isolation
• Israel re-gathered as of May 1948
• Israel taken captive
• it’s not o. w.
• Jacob
• James killed by Herod
• James Maitland Stewart
• James Michener’s book Poland
• Jamestown 1620
• Jealousy
• Jealousy is like a cancer
• Jeremiah 29:11
• Jeremiah Challenged by God
• Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ associated with joy
• Jesus Christ repeated God's ideal
• Jesus Christ s. by the father
• Jesus Christ Was A.
• Jesus Christ; His baptism
• Jesus Christ; how different He is from those who claim to represent Him
• Jesus Christ; Warrior, wounded, and wise
• Jesus made a great deal available
• Jesus preparing a place
• Jesus traveling with his family
• Jesus was compassionate toward a widow
• Jesus; the name of Jesus interpreted
• Jewel; the Jewel in the Singapore airport
• Jewish Christians move over to accept Gentile Christians
• Jewish evangelists; 144,000. J.E.
• Jews; history of j
• Jihad
• Jihadists
• Jimmy Chin’s National Geographic photo; May, 2011
• Joab hard and calculating
• Joab, David’s general; wiser than the king
• Job
• Job 11
• Job 11:5 & 6
• Job 12
• Job 13
• Job 16
• Job 31:4&7
• Job 9 & 10
• Job bashing
• Job brings b. to O.T. Wisdom Literature
• Job still spiritual gold at the end of chapter 2
• Job's comforter
• Job's Painful B.
• Job: automatic connection with the forgotten, the ignored, the marginalized
• Job: misery’s case presented
• Job: spiritual sushi
• Job: why J. is believed to be an ancient book
• Job; fits the "warrior, wounded, wisdom:" pattern
• Jobian back-off maneuver
• John 11:25
• John 14:2
• John 1:29-34
• John 3:22-30
• John Andre; Revolutionary War British officer J.A.
• John had a q. for Jesus Christ
• John Quincy Adams humbly served in Congress
• John Robinson, charismatic Pilgrim leader
• John the Baptist
• John the Baptist P.
• John the Baptist; his disciples being protective
• John the baptizer
• John; I John 1:1-4
• Johne 3:16-19
• Johnson, trial of President J.
• Joseph; fits the "warrior, wounded, wisdom" pattern
• Joy
• Joy amidst poverty
• Judah immoral
• Judah s-s.
• Judges 13-16
• Judging
• Judgment; divine j.
• Julie Andrews' Examiner
• Jumping to false c.
• Justice; two different systems of j.
• Justify; does the end j. the means
• Karpe diem
• Kaynor, David
• keeping things in the right o.
• Keith Kaynor; warrior, wound
• Kidnappers
• Kids in Cuba
• Kilion
• Kindness
• King George III
• King George's spirituality in conflict with British conquest
• King Herod
• King James – persecuted Pilgrims
• King of Siam
• Kings and queens of the dog world
• Kings: good and bad
• Kinsman-redeemer
• Kiss
• Know
• Knowing G.w.
• Knowing what should be done without being told
• Knowing; not k.
• Knowledge is power
• Known; the k. and the unknown
• Ku Klux Klan
• Laban
• Lacking
• Lacking, yet still triumphant
• Large family
• Large gatherings
• Laughter
• Law shifting to grace
• Laws of p.
• Leadership brings surprises
• Leadership Brings The U.
• Leadership stress
• Leadership stress and strain
• Leah
• Learning disabled children
• Learning from those older and bolder
• Learning to do what you’ve never done before
• Learning to expect from others
• learning to have patience
• Learning to have sympathy
• Learning to have empathy
• Leaving a n.s. to God
• Leaving; people l. to support someone else
• Legacy; achieving a godly legacy
• Legalism
• Legalism– trying to earn forgiveness
• Legitimate and non-legitimate
• Leniency not extended
• Lessons from Experience
• Levi (Matthew) former tax collector
• Lie turned n.
• Life shaping e.
• Life-dominating love for God
• Light
• Liked
• Limitations
• Limited information
• Listening
• Listening wisely
• Little is much when God is in it
• Living by faith
• London preacher of 1854-1891 Charles Haddon S.
• Loosening Your Grip
• Lose
• Losing f.r.
• Loss of respect for each other in the family
• Loss of the glue of society
• Lost awareness of sin
• Lots; casting of l.
• Louise Catherine Adams
• Louisiana Purchase
• Love
• Love story
• Loved
• Loved by God
• Loving Children
• Loving God
• Low income
• Luke
• Luke 10:38-41
• Luke 2:44
• Luke 5:33-39
• Luke 7
• Lying
• Lying and liars
• Mahlon
• Making History
• Making p.
• making people into g.
• Malachi
• Manila missionary eats with poor
• Manipulating your husband
• Manna
• Many killed in an unnecessary war
• Many things are r.
• Marines; the few, the brave and proud Maturity; when God sets about maturing someone
• Mark 2:18-22
• Mark 2:4
• Marking your B.
• Marriage
• Marriage deception
• Marriage first, then pleasure
• Marriage to a heathen king; spending the night with the king
• Marriage/Divorce
• Martha's concern for Lazarus
• Martin Luther as a young monk
• Martin Luther King
• Massasoit, First Nations leader
• Matthew 11:4-6
• Matthew 13
• Matthew 14
• Matthew 19:1-2
• Matthew 19:16-20:16
• Matthew 1:21
• Matthew 4:1-11
• Matthew 9:14-17
• Maturity to restrain one’s speech
• Mayflower
• Meaningful meetings w/ the Master
• meaningless activity that does not a. the goal
• Mechanics of w.
• Medical a.
• Medical emergencies
• Medical needs
• meeting temptation
• Mellowing over the years
• Memorizing Scripture
• Mental peace
• Mental thought life
• Mentally delayed
• Mighty G.M. did not c.
• Mighty G.M. did not change
• Military veterans living in woundedville
• Ministry is consuming
• Ministry Leadership
• Miraculous
• Mirrors help people wait
• Misery Aboard the Mayflower in 1620
• Mission
• Missionary acid test
• Missionary support dropped
• Missionary Work
• Missions
• Misspent values
• Misunderstood
• Mixed group: believers and non-believers
• Monastery life; Luther's life in a monastery
• Money, not knowing about the m.
• Moral fabric of the universe
• Mordecai
• Mordecai and Esther sent official l. to the people
• Mordecai continued to rise to power
• Mordecai Events; seeming unrelated e.
• Mordecai; mourning of M.
• More happening than we know
• More print on only one topic
• More redeemed than remain lost
• Moses
• Moses a. by Israelites
• Moses h.a.
• Moses too familiar with God
• Moses' brilliant appeal to God
• Moses; phases of his life
• Mosquitos
• Most cheerful dog
• Motherhood
• Motherhood impacted
• Mothers
• Motive for obedience
• Motive for service
• Mount Sinai
• Mourning; parents
• Movies; American movies in the 1940s and 1950s
• Moving a home
• Mr. Franklin Graham
• Mr. Guilty
• Mrs. Job foolish counsel
• Mutual submission; Ephesians 5:21
• Mysteries
• Mysterious providence
• Mystery
• Mystery; living with unanswered questions
• N. vow
• Names; meaning of names
• Naomi
• Narratives of Confidence
• Narrow margin of acquittal
• Narrow victory
• Nation, tribe, language and people
• Nazarite
• Nebuchadnezzar – “Tell me my dream.”
• Needs
• Needy
• Negative
• Negative situation
• Negatives more than balanced off by achieving the goal
• Negotiating an agreement
• Negotiating with kidnappers
• Nehemiah
• Nervous; Jimmy Stewart nervous
• Neutrality
• New
• New Testament claim to divine inspiration
• New testament writers were truthful
• No arms
• No s. or s.
• Noah's flood
• Non-judgmental
• not all churches are true to the Bible
• Not c. those involved
• Not keeping one's w.
• Not know
• Not knowing
• Not knowing what to do
• Not knowing what we do not know
• Not r.s.
• Not Understand
• not what was e.
• Nothing e. as God set about to create faith
• Nourishment
• Nourishment, spiritual n.
• Now
• Numbers killed in the American Civil War
• Obama
• Obed
• Obedience
• Obligation; does a need constitute an obligation
• Obvious
• Oceans
• Oddity
• Old / new wineskins
• Old covenant obsolete
• Old Testament c.g.
• Old Testament Stories
• Old/New Covenant
• One world
• Oneness
• Opinions
• Order
• Order of events: getting the law
• Ordinary; people o.
• Original sin; our basic nature
• Originality
• Originality in S.
• Orpah
• Others
• Our o., not God's o.
• Out of control
• Out tricked
• Out with the old, in with the new
• Out-of-balance living
• Out-of-character participation
• Outside one's comfort zone
• Outside wanting to be inside
• Over dressed
• Overcoming
• Overcoming a negative past
• Overcoming Challenges
• Overcoming death of a husband and a daughter
• Overly c.
• Overly s. Christians
• Overreaction
• Overwhelmed
• Owned
• P&C in the church and royal family
• Paid a price to go to comfort a friend
• Palestinians, non-violet Palestinians
• Parable
• Parable of the Sower
• Parables
• Pardon not ours to give
• Parents and their Sons and Daughters
• Parsonage; buying the church p.
• Participation
• Pastor; due diligence for his own family
• Patches
• Patience
• Patience / impatience
• Patience test
• Patriot Jimmy Stewart
• Payin a high price to be kind
• Paying attention to people
• Peace
• Peace about the pace of development
• Peace with God
• Pendulum of history
• Penny War
• People change
• People l. by God
• People required to make a p. happen
• Permeation
• Perplexed
• Persecuted
• Persecuting those we should thank
• Persian court life
• Personal connection with the resurrection
• Personal Development
• Personal devotions not always s.c.
• Personal experience
• Personal need test
• Personal Reflection
• Personal Relationship with God
• Personalities
• Perspective
• Perspective gained through passage of time
• Perspective on being criticized
• Persuasion
• Peter
• Peter slow to c.
• Peter, II Peter 3:15 & 16
• Philistines
• Physical distance from God
• Physical stamina for mountain climbing
• Physical things that are overwhelming
• Piano tuning
• Pick-up lines
• Picture of s.
• Pie
• Pilgrims
• Pilgrims with non-Christians
• Piper, John P.
• Plagiarism
• Point of L. in a sea of darkness
• Poland
• Police officers
• Polish gentry show us ourselves
• Political mud-slinging
• Politics
• Politics of America
• Pomp and ceremony
• Position and property of Haman given to Mordecai
• Positive r.m.
• Positive role model
• Poverty
• Practical Advice
• Praise
• Pray; reasons to p.
• Prayer
• Praying
• Praying for people we have never met
• Praying specifically
• Praying without ceasing
• Preachers and Christian workers are dispensing truth time bombs
• Pregnancy
• President Biden
• President Bush
• President Dwight Eisenhower
• President Harry Truman
• President Obama
• President Richard Nixon
• President Richard Nixon was G.
• President Trump
• Presidential opposition
• Presumptuous
• Prevent
• Price
• Price; the p. to win a son
• Pride
• Prince Phillip
• Princeton attended by movie star Jimmy Stewart
• Priorities
• Prison
• Private times of w.
• Probability
• Professional services
• Project
• Protecting His Own from the Unknown
• Protection
• Protection from our sin natures
• Proverbs 9:9
• Proverbs are probabilities
• Providence
• Providence; illustration of God’s p.
• Providential timing and vision required to convince Peter to change
• Provision
• Provoked but still responsible
• Psychology; the p. of waiting
• public s.
• Public Speaking
• Punishment shortened
• Purifying our motive
• Purim, meaning of and celebration of P.
• Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III
• Queen Elizabeth
• Queen of England
• Question
• Questions about what happened
• Quiet Strength
• Quit; John Quincy Adams did not quit
• Race Relations
• Rachel
• Radical action
• Radio Telescope
• Raising Children
• Re-naming something to increase interest
• Reading shaping a young mind
• Reaping what we sow
• Reasons for attending church
• Reasons to b.t.b.
• Rebekah
• Rebuke
• Recent American presidents
• Reconcile war with loving our enemies
• Reconciliation
• Redeemed
• Redeemed from being what we are sinners
• Redemption
• Reformed Protestant perfection
• Refusal to get distracted by unkindness
• Refusing to be sidelined
• Refusing to compete or compare
• Reinterpreting our circumstances
• Reject a leader’s direction
• Rejected
• Rejection by an older brother
• Relative
• Religious
• Reluctance to Change
• Remaining focused on the m.
• Remaining v.
• Repeating
• Repentance
• Reputation
• Request; Esther‘s delicate r.
• Request; Esther’s r.
• Resistance to change
• Responding to the nuances of the Spirit
• Response
• Responsibility
• Responsibility to match the benefit
• Rest
• Resurrection; personal connection with the r.
• Revelation
• Revelation 21:16
• Revelation 2:17
• Revelation 7:9
• Rewarded
• Riches
• Ridicule
• Ridiculed
• Right
• Righteousness
• Ring; signet official r.
• Risk
• Risk; Esther taking a r.
• Risk; Esther’s r.
• Risk; taking r. for God
• Risks of faith
• Rock in a sock for a ball
• Rocket science
• Role model
• Romans
• Romans 15:4
• Romans 1:17 and 7:15-25
• Romans 2:9
• Romans 5
• Romans 8:33-39
• Royal f.
• royal family in p.
• Royal family ripped apart
• Royalty
• Ruined
• Rules which seem strange
• Rushed/hurried unsatisfying
• Rushing ahead
• Russian fears of America
• Ruth
• S. out of one's comfort zone
• S.W.T.F.
• Sacrifice
• Safety in numbers
• Saints
• Salvation
• Salvation of a son; what it took
• Samaritan's Purse
• Samson began the d. of Israel
• Samson the recipient of the m.
• Sand, space, speed of light, galaxies, lightning
• Sarah
• Sarcasm
• Satan in contest of wills with God
• Satan unsuccessful
• Satan used the Sabeans and Chaldeans
• Satanic battle forgives, wills and souls
• Satanic dream
• Satanic Terrorism
• Satan’s power
• Scarce Christian education material
• School; provision for s.
• Scientific method
• Scriptural response to temptation
• Second coming of Jesus Christ
• Second best
• Secret manna
• Secular government; God uses s.g.
• Security
• Security; personal s. for Persian kings
• Seeing
• Seeing One who is invisible
• Seeing Samson's life in a b. way
• Seeing the good
• Seeing the needs of the future
• Seeing things in a new light
• seeking human approval to the point of i.
• Seeking to be liked
• Seize the moment
• Self-atonement
• Self-awareness
• Self-confidence
• Self-control
• Self-justifying
• Self-Reflection
• Self-sacrificing
• Self-service salvation
• Selfish
• Selfish speech
• Selfish; “Am I being selfish or materialistic?”
• Selfless love
• Senate
• Senior; the senior advantage
• Sensitive
• Sensitizing us to one another
• Sensory experience
• Sent
• Separated
• Sermons
• Serving beyond your ability and experience
• Serving to the point of exhaustion
• Shakes developed in World War II airman
• showing children f.
• Sibling rivalry
• Sight
• Sight and sound
• Sight, the basis for beliefs
• Sight, the value of physical s.
• Sight; the capacity of sight
• Sightings of the H.S.
• Significance; new s.
• Silence Dogood, Benjamin Franklin's imaginary character
• Silent opposition
• Sin
• Sin and Redemption
• Sin brought on a universal flood
• Sin impacting future generations
• Sin nature
• Sin of previous generations
• Sin totally permeates everything
• Sinful i.
• Singapore – finding someone in big airport
• Sitting Bull, Sioux Indian chief
• Sitting where they sat
• Size of the universe
• Skirt length
• Slander
• Slanted news
• Slaves to our own habits and desires
• Sleeplessness
• Small things
• Smart
• Smear
• Social embarassment
• Social order reversed
• Social outcast
• Social upheaval
• Solomon builds the temple
• Some feel i.
• Some songs could not be sung
• Sound of Music, The
• Soundless communication
• Sovereignty
• Sovereignty over conception
• Soviet communism
• Sowing & reaping
• Space travel
• Speaking
• Specific p.
• Speedwell
• Spiritual beauty
• Spiritual death
• Spiritual gifts related to love for God
• Spiritual Growth
• Spiritual hunger
• Spiritual Insights
• Spiritual n.
• Spiritual R & D (Research and Development)
• Spiritual saga
• Spiritual teething (opportunities for growth)
• Spiritual victory
• Spiritual Vitality
• Spiritual war
• Spurgeon
• Stain; a social stain
• Stand; Esther not taking s. for her Jewishness
• Starting a Gospel conversation
• Status quo entrenchment
• Staunch
• Steady plodding in spiritual disciplines
• Stealing other people’s land
• Stellar Events
• Stepping into another's life
• Stepping into another's world
• Stepping into the u.
• Strange way to build a worldwide empire
• Strategy
• Strength
• Strengths becoming weaknesses
• Stress
• Stress in confrontation
• Stresses personality
• Stretched
• Strong
• Strong, youthful, brash, arrogant
• Submission
• Submission out of love and respect
• Submission; absolute s.
• Submitting
• Submitting our wills to the Holy Spirit
• Success
• Sudden change in values
• Suffering
• Suffering focuses the issues of worth, value and ownership
• Super Bowl of the Universe
• Super Bowl, World Cup viewerships
• Supercharged
• Supernatural
• Superstition
• Surrender; arranging a s.
• Surrogate parenting
• Surveys
• Sympathy
• Taken advantage of
• Taking advantage of
• Taking on One's Superiors
• Taking the i.
• Taking things out of context
• Talk grace, but live law
• Tamar deceives Judah
• Tamar takes hold, controversial action
• Tamar takes r.a.
• Taylor Johnson Temperament Test
• Team work
• Teenage desire for a car
• Temple; Solomon builds the temple
• Temptation
• Tender-minded Ahimaaz
• Tenderhearted
• Tension building in America
• Terrifying Circumstances
• Terror
• Terrorism
• Terrorists
• Tested
• Testing from God
• Thankfulness
• Thanksgiving
• the 11th graders’ s.
• The b. we deserve
• the believer’s i. in Christ
• The C. Known in Heaven
• The c. of things is relative
• the d. illustration
• the d. personality
• The desire for more c.
• The Development of Airpower
• The difficulty of w.
• the emotions of r. missing
• The f.
• The G. of T. Given to a Hurting Man
• The Gospel Does Not C.
• The high cost of sin
• The Holy Spirit A.A.F.
• The house of Saul c. to the house of David
• The i. 26th verse of Job 12
• the imagined n. of the scientific community
• The importance of noticing B.C.
• The laugh of u.
• The Lord's calm acceptance of death
• The magnificence of JC
• The many factors involved in the c. of Moses
• The need for balance in American politics
• the number of people r.
• the p. Pilgrims p. others
• the Pilgrim ship M.
• The pilgrim ship s.
• The pilgrims d.
• The power for w. to dissolve
• the r. nature of anti-God people
• the Roman centurion’s f.
• The Salvation Army
• the specifics of how God answered p.
• The stress of w.
• The Swing of History
• The title J.C.
• The unknown
• The US S.
• the value of i.
• The weak c.g.
• Theology
• Thessalonians; 1 T. 5:17
• Thinking
• Thinking; what we think others are t.
• Thirst for Christian education material in Cuba
• Thomas Jefferson
• Tim LaHaye classification of personalities
• Timing
• Timothy, I Timothy 5:18
• Timothy, II Timothy 3:16 & 17
• Traitor
• Transactions, legalizing t. in Isreal
• Travel Plans Disrupted
• Treating others like family
• Trials of the saints known in Heaven
• Trickery
• True identity in Christ
• True r.
• Trump
• Trump, former President Trump
• Trust
• Trusting God When He Says "No"
• Trusting others with your home
• Trusting, therefore thankful
• Truth
• Truth capturing a person's mind
• Truth e. to Christianity
• Truth hidden from those we are serving
• Try n. ways of Bible reading
• Two points of c.
• Type-A, choleric drive
• Ultimate
• Unanswered questions
• Unappreciated
• Unaware
• Unbecoming glitter and pomp
• Unbelief
• Uncategorized
• Uncountable
• Undermining motive for obedience
• Understanding one's past
• Understanding R.
• Understanding the Bible
• Understanding the fears of others
• Understood
• Unemotional man wife starving
• Unexpected
• Unexplainable mysteries
• Unhappy presidency
• Unidentified servant of Genesis 24
• Unity
• Unity of the Father with the Son
• Unkind
• Unknown
• Unknown Name
• Unknown; Jesus u. to John as Messiah
• Unloved wife (wives)
• Unnecessary
• Unspiritual; the fear of looking u.
• Untruthful
• Upgrading salvation
• Upper limit to what one will absorb / do
• Use What You've Got
• Values
• Variety during pubic speaking
• Vashti
• Verses about being r.
• Victorious Christian
• Vietnam
• Visible / invisible
• VLA
• Voice
• Vulnerable
• Waiting
• Waiting for Children
• Waiting; what helps people wait
• Wall building
• Wanting i.g.
• Wanting to be close to children
• Wanting to be l.
• War
• War; extra day of w. explained
• War; holy w.
• Warped v.
• Warrior; having a warrior mentality and personality
• Warts and all
• Water
• Water skiing as an example
• Wayne Gruden on r.
• We like being i.
• We long to be u.
• Weakness; feeling our w.
• Wealth of American Christian education material
• What to do when criticized
• what was accomplished on the c.
• What we get used to and then c.d.w.
• Whining
• Why Jesus Christ is Special
• Why Jesus Spoke in P.
• Why we don't pray
• Why would God allow a child to die?
• Wicked generation coming from a Godly generation
• Widows
• Wilderness Temptation of Christ
• Wilderness Wandering
• Will; the will to win the mental battle
• Willing to l.
• Willingness to take r.
• Wineskins
• Wings; under His w.
• Wings; under whose w.
• Winning without knowing you are w.
• Winston Churchill’s WWII b.
• Wisdom literature of the Bible
• Wisdom; gaining wisdom
• Wise
• With
• Witnesses; wanting w. to support leadership decisions
• Witnessing
• Wives taking control in the marriage
• Woodward; journalist Robert Woodward
• Word
• Wore our sin; Jesus w.o.s.
• Work
• Work; a w. in progress
• Working around the inflexible
• Working six days a week; exhausted
• World War I vs. World War II
• World War II
• Worship
• Worship in spite of mysteries and injustices
• Worshipper identifying with his sacrificial animal
• Wounded by sin and/or circumstances
• Write a Book
• Wrong
• Wrong issue
• Xerxes
• Xerxes; life of indulgence
• You being you
• Young couple i.
• Young love
• Young man’s project
• Young men warring on the basketball court
• Young women living together
• Youth Involvement
• Zachariah
• Zachariah d., unable to speak
• Zachariah speechless of a season
• Zachariah’s u.
• Zeresh
• Zophar u. to Job
• Zophar, one of Job’s friends
• “Always been this way.”
• “Dry tree”
• “Interested observer”
• “Mansions” in Heaven
• “Take it or leave it.”
• • Inanimate things responding to their Creator
• • Prolific writer Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• • “Neutral” seekers of the truth; no such person exists