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Day 51- Don’t want to get involved20 Feb

Leviticus 5:1 “If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;

Though Leviticus may have some tough reading, there are some great verses that pop out. Keep looking for them. This verse, 5:1, is a great reminder of our responsibility to others in matters of justice. We may not want to get involved in other people’s business (and we certainly don’t want to sin by being a gossip) but when we see some injustice, we have a responsibility to get involved, lest the sin be on our head as well.

Be encouraged by the reading, and hang in there!

One Response to “Day 51- Don’t want to get involved”

  1. LReimer 20 February 2010 at 6:47 pm #

    Frank says he isn’t reading the Bible before he goes to bed anymore – all those sacrifices and blood at bedtime make for a terrible night’s sleep with disturbing dreams!

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Sacred Desert

Meeting the Lord in Dry Places:

None of us really want the Dry Spells of life. We become tired, and thirsty for something that satisfies, we are uncomfortable, we are unsure of the future. The dry places of our lives feel the most distant from the Lord. We think that the dryness is an expression of God’s removal of blessing, the absence of his presence, when in reality, it is the desert places that allow us raw and concentrated time with Him. Allow this series to challenge your thinking of that a time of blessing from the Lord looks like.

“There is in true grace an infinite circle:
a man by thirsting receives,
and receiving thirsts for more.”

- Thomas Shepard

Victorious Life

Too often Christians talk about just scraping by, lacking joy in the Lord, being defeated by temptation. When we read Deuteronomy, Joshua, Acts and Romans, we get a very different picture…celebration of victory and the gift of God’s strength to conquer evil. Over the weeks following Easter, we will find out what it means to live in the victory won  by Jesus in his resurrection.

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