Tag: bible meditations
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What It Takes to Have Great Faith – Meditations on the Canaanite Woman
By God’s providence, the Canaanite woman’s encounter with Jesus gives us profound understanding about faith that is great according to Jesus. We must give careful attention and ponder deeply on those words of Jesus, “O woman, great is your faith!” In this blog post, we will be meditating on her story as written in Matthew…
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God’s Mercy: Meditations on Hagar (Genesis 16 and 21)
Little is known about Hagar’s back story. Many Bible commentaries conclude that this Egyptian woman found herself gifted as a maidservant by Pharoah to a beautiful woman named Sarai, later renamed as Sarah (Genesis 12:15-16; Genesis 17:15). Regardless of how Hagar ended up with Sarah and Abraham, according to Genesis 16:3, she was forced into…
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You must learn to love yourself? Meditations on Matthew 22:39
The secular just-love-yourself-to-happiness delusion has found its way into evangelical teaching for Christian women. The Christianized version of self-love is that we can better love others when we learn to love ourselves. At first glance, it may sound logical and appealing. However, when tested by God’s Word, this teaching of self-love is unbiblical and demonic…
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