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Posts Tagged ‘captivity’

  • Declaring His Praise in The Coastlands

    Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

    “He will not be disheartened or crushed, until He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who dwell in darkness from the prison. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare His praise [...]

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  • Freedom and Independence

    Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

    “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge… “ Isaiah 5:13
    How many times, as we look back on mistakes we’ve made, have we uttered those exasperated words: “If only I had known?”
    If only we had known the long-term consequences of choices we made; if only we had been aware of certain [...]

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  • Great Exchange

    Thursday, March 12th, 2009

    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    A Double Portion for Sin
    God’s interest is to transform broken and bruised people like you and me—blighted souls ravaged by incidents, accidents and willfulness—not only by removing the damage, but also by doing us so much good that we end up with a double portion of blessing from His hand.
    Most [...]

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  • Introduction to Exodus: It Isn’t Up to You

    Thursday, March 19th, 2009

    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    Roughly 280 years have passed since Joseph’s death around 1805 B.C., at the end of GENESIS. The 70 descendants of Jacob (Israel), who went down into Egypt to escape the hardship of famine in their own land, have flourished and multiplied into an expatriate community nearly 2 million strong. Fearing what [...]

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  • Jail Diets: Past and Present

    Friday, August 29th, 2008

    “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoner…” Isaiah 61:1

    On my last day of a long-ago trip to Holland, [...]

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  • Moses the Bridegroom of Blood

    Thursday, March 19th, 2009

    by Daniel A. Brown, PhD
    Most of us have seen the movie “The Ten Commandments.” Like all Hollywood adaptations, it pays little attention to what really happened. Its fanciful plot inserts numerous characters and twists of events that are nowhere to be found in the Bible, and it leaves out many that are found there. [...]

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