Tag: hatred
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When God Scoffs at People
The Psalms were written between Moses (c. 1440/1280 BC) and the Babylonian Exile (586 BC) by various human authors, including kings David and Asaph. The Psalms are the songs God inspired for the expression of praise, worship, and confession of His people to Himself. This divine psalter, or hymnal, has 150 songs God wrote through…
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Do You Wear Pressed Clothes Over Rotting Flesh?
Jesus is sending His apostles (missionaries) on their first short-term mission trip. He finishes His instruction in the final portion of Matthew 10. In this portion of Christ’s instruction, He warns His apostles about the world’s state of affairs and the nature of preaching the true Gospel in such a world. Though the explicit context…
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Shooting Law Enforcement Officers
There was a time, when I lived in Wake Forest, NC and was visiting home that I got pulled over by a police officer. I was on an Oklahoma back road so that I could avoid the tolls, going through either Cyril or Apache. The speed limit was 25 miles an hour and I was…
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Childish Hatred Mistaken For Defending What Is Right?
An old man poked his head up over the fence on a Saturday morning to observe his neighbor’s yard. “What kind of man,” he thought to himself, “lets his yard get so filthy?” He observed toy trucks and baseball gloves and the grass was taller than it should have been; it would come up to…