I traversed the rabbit holes of the enemies plots and schemes, and for the past three years I have mourned and wept over what I did not know, what I ignorantly supported, what I had refused to look at, and what I refused to hear.
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David stood before King Saul as a younger brother to his elder brothers serving in Saul’s military. He had just come from the fields where his job had been tending the sheep. On an errand of his father, David brought lunches to his brothers and discovered the armies of Israel in a standoff with the
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It has already begun. The year 2020 for many marked the beginning of the great sifting that God is doing in the world, yet in reality it began in the years preceding. It isn’t a sifting separating survivors from victims. No, it is a sifting of a very different nature that no one could have
No one wants to believe that the world is in a bad place. I mean, it was just a couple of years ago that we were all chasing our dreams, and planning our futures, and we want to believe that that day will return to us if we can just hang in there a little
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Part 3 of “What Did Mordecai Hear?” Esther 4:1-8 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. 2 But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. 3 In every province
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Part 2 of “What Did Mordecai Hear?” I don’t know if you have considered this question before. “What do you do to stop a genocide?”. I have thought about it from time to time, especially when reading WWII History and the annihilation of the Jews by a Nazi regime. Everyone wants to believe they would
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Part 1 He was a good Jewish man living in the kingdom of Persia. Having first been conquered by the Babylonians, the people of Israel were taken captive to a kingdom they did not build, only to continue their lives in foreign land and customs. Later conquering Babylon, the Persians became the dominating kingdom. They
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“A member of a church in Germany during the time of the Holocaust shares this dramatic story. ‘A railroad track ran behind our small church and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from a distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we
“The siege cuts off the flow of goods and services. It makes sure nothing leaves the “city” that the enemy does not authorize, and it makes sure nothing comes in to the “city” that provides hope or help. Information is gagged. News from the outside is forbidden to reach the “inside”. The sentry’s of the
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Part 1 Wow, what a year it has been!I finished my book “Beyond the Siege” and published it in February 2020. I had no idea then that the book would be a field guide for the evil that descended on our country in the form of a virus just a month later. I’ve spent the
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