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False Teachers and the Golden Calf
Exodus 32 tells the story of the golden calf. After the crossing of the Red Sea, God told Moses to meet Him on the holy mountain of Mt.Sinai. There God spoke with Moses and gave him the Law that the Hebrews were to follow from now on. Moses was there for some time — 40 days and 40 nights. (We’ve heard the “40” number before, haven’t we? The number of completed preparation.) Moses took Joshua with him and left his brother the high priest Aaron in charge of the people. But after Moses was gone for a few weeks, the people thought Moses is not coming back and so they…
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Perseverance: Boring — or Blessing?
What is perseverance and why does the Bible mention it a lot? Because we sure don’t see modern book titles like “30 Days to More Perseverance!” or “How to Persevere in Seven Easy Steps!” The secular definition for “perseverance” is “steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.” And this is true. But for Christians, there is more. The secondary definition is “Continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation.” Let’s see what the Bible says about it. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering…
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Speech Recognition and Snow
I’m experimenting with speech recognition on my new laptop. I’m frankly a better speaker than a writer so I do better when I write by talking it out first to myself. Psychotic? You decide. 🙂 While training the computer I came up with this snippet that I rather liked: It’s snowing here in the mountains. I took my dog for short walk earlier. I wasn’t going to, but he gets kind of impossible without it and heaven knows I need it too. I thought the snow was over, and was delighted to feel a few flakes. Then I thought it was really over, and was surprised to look back out…