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Thought from today’s Bible reading from Leviticus 19-21. Sadly, helping the poor is a contentious issue in our society. It is not so much that people do not want to help the poor – most good, moral people want help to be provided. The issue is over how to best help the poor and whether this [...]
Thought from today’s Bible reading from Exodus 7-9. After suffering through several plagues, Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let the Israelites go into the wilderness to worship God. After the sixth plague, God told Moses to deliver a message to Pharaoh, reminding him of his place before the Lord. “Thus says the Lord, the God of [...]
Thought from today’s Bible reading from Exodus 1-3. “Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph” (Exodus 1:8). This new king was fearful of the children of Israel. As the people multiplied, he worried that they might turn against him and depart. So he “afflicted them with hard labor” (Exodus 1:11), [...]
Thought from today’s Bible reading from Genesis 46-47. Bible students are familiar with the period of slavery the children of Israel endured in Egypt. But there was another period of Egyptian bondage that occurred earlier. In this case, the slaves were not the Israelites or any other foreign people, they were the Egyptians themselves. During [...]