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A Gambian girl smiling “For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people…” – Psalm 149:4a Again, God cares for your soul, Do you care for the souls of others? Do you care for your own soul?? Sometimes the way we treat our physical, emotional, and spiritual health is an affront to God. The soul is the totality…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/4Matt. 22:15-22 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons   12/3 You Are Invited to Be Chosen! Matthew 22:1-14Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/2 Matt. 21:33-46 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country." "When the harvest time had come, he sent…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons   12/1Matt. 21:23-32 When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons   11/30John 1:35-42 The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, "Look, here is the Lamb of God!" The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following,…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 11/29Matthew 21:1-11 When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons     11/28Luke 21:5-19 When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, "As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be…

By Dianelos Georgoudis – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, I have studied the problem of evil since I learned to think philosophically, psychologically, and theologically. I have all the easy answers in a short file. I have the really tough ones in the question box. We can dismiss it all with the word "sin," but…