Evangelicia Blog

You Can Sometimes Get What You Want (But It's Often Not What You Need)

2024-02-17 11:36 1 Samuel 8:10. "So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking a king from him." The words Samuel spoke were a warning from God about what having a king would mean to the peopl...

What Reward Do I Wish for My Accusers?

2024-02-16 10:16 Psalm 109:20. "May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life." This petition of David's follows a lengthy and very harsh list of the things David hop...

The Land Shall Tremble and the People Mourn

2024-02-15 06:46 Amos 8:8. "Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?" The reason God...

When God's Time is Right, We'll Know It

2024-02-14 08:26 Ezra 8:15-17. "As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. Then I sent for ... leading men, and for ... men of insight, and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at ...

Lessons Learned in the Teacher's Absence

2024-02-13 06:36 Mark 9:14. "And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them." This is immediately after the transfiguration - Jesus had taken Peter, James, and Jo...

Trust That God Knows You, Even When the World Doesn't

2024-02-12 09:41 2 Corinthians 5:11. "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience." Paul is describing a difficult line...

We Are All Unclean and in Need of Healing

2024-02-11 08:54 Leviticus 13:45-46 and Mark 1:40-44. "The leper who has the disease shall ... cry out 'Unclean, unclean!' ... he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp." (Leviticus 13:44-46). "And...

Prophets Both Know and Don't Know What They Are Talking About

2024-02-09 06:07 Amos 1:1-2. "The words of Amos ... two years before the earthquake ... :'The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel w...

Nothing Happens Without His Permission

2024-02-08 06:58 Judith 9:5-6. "For thou hast done these things and those that went before and those that followed; thou hast designed the things that are now, and those that are to come. Yea, the things that thou did...

Reviving Our Heart's Desire

2024-02-07 06:34 Ezekiel 24:25-27. "[O]n the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart's desire, and also their sons and daughters, on that day a fu...