“Sir,” Gideon replied, “if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The Lord brought us up out of Egypt’? But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.”
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ACAD – Fight or Flight: 1 Samuel 17
“The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
ACAD – Fight or Flight: 1 Kings 19
Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life.”
God of the Living
Indeed they cannot die any more, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
ACAD – Give Grace: Romans 3
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much, in every way. For in the first place, the Jews[a] were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Although every human is a liar, let GodContinueContinue reading “ACAD – Give Grace: Romans 3”
ACAD – Give Grace: Romans 1
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
ACAD – Give Grace: John 1
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
ACAD – Give Grace: Song of Songs 7
I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me.
Come, my beloved,
let us go forth into the fields
ACAD – Women & Truth: 1 Esdras 4
[About Esdras: First Book of Esdras, also called Greek Ezra, abbreviation I Esdras, apocryphal work that was included in the canon of the Septuagint (the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible) but is not part of any modern biblical canon; it is called Greek Ezra by modern scholars to distinguish it from the Old TestamentContinueContinue reading “ACAD – Women & Truth: 1 Esdras 4”
ACAD – Women & Truth: 1 Esdras 3
The first wrote, “Wine is strongest.” The second wrote, “The king is strongest.” The third wrote, “Women are strongest, but above all things truth is victor.”
Harvest Life 