"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
A “One Room Schoolhouse” is more a pedagogy, an approach to learning, than a physical description, though most this year would indeed meet in private homes out of necessity if nothing else. Historically many schools that employed the “One Room” method were, in fact, just a single room, often framed like a house, and which …
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Amos is an extraordinarily concise and penetrating prophet who multiplies oracles and images to hammer home the solemn theme of inescapable judgment. Only in the last five verses is there a message of hope and promise. The three promises at the end of the book (9:11–15) are that God will restore the line of David, …
2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Colossians 4:2 CSB The Priority of Prayer The Necessity of Prayer The Call for Prayer Jesus’ Teaching on How to Pray Our Help in Prayer Outline for Prayer The Priority of Prayer Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray …
As God’s representatives, judges are called to acquit the innocent, condemn the guilty, and expose false accusations and bribery (2 Chronicles 19:5–7). They are not to distort justice by favoring either the poor or the rich (Exodus 23:3; Leviticus 19:15). Justices Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Prayers: Specific Prayers
Description of the Day Joel 2 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)2 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion;sound the alarm on my holy mountain!Let all the residents of the land tremble,for the day of the Lord is coming;in fact, it is near—2 a day of darkness and gloom,a day of clouds and total darkness,like the dawn spreading …
Joel’s theme is the day of the Lord that will come upon Judah and the nations. He uses Judah’s dreadful experience of a recent locust plague to illustrate the devastation that awaits the nation if they do not humbly turn to the Lord in repentance and obedience. The day of judgment upon Judah is seen …