Josh Hunt's Blog, page 167
July 25, 2019
July 24, 2019
The wildness of worship
Most of the stories of men encountering God in the Bible do not take place in church(!). Moses is met in the desert, in a burning bush. Jacob wrestles with God in the wilderness also, in the dead of night. David wrote most of his psalms out under the stars. Paul is met on the […]
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July 23, 2019
Learning Prayer from Good King Asa
Bring God into the crisis. King Asa went into battle with 580,000 of his troops against the Ethiopians who had a million men and 300 chariots. The prospect of victory was slight, and the hope of God’s people was dark. Asa prayed for God to be with him. “Asa cried out … ‘LORD, it is […]
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July 22, 2019
Angry at God
In the matter of Drusky versus God—God has won.” That’s how the Associated Press report, dated March 15, 1999, started out. It went on to explain: “A Pennsylvania man’s lawsuit naming God as a defendant has been thrown out by a court in Syracuse [NY].” After a longtime battle with his former employer (then called […]
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July 21, 2019
How to be happy — Randy Alcorn
Both modern research and Scripture put the ball in our court. Happy people give generously, serve others, and seek to make others happy. Happiness doesn’t precede giving and serving; it accompanies and follows it. Those who sit around waiting to be happy shouldn’t hold their breath —it will likely be a long wait! A 2010 survey […]
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July 20, 2019
How can I overcome my problems?
The well-known story of Jehoshaphat describes one of the greatest epic battles in the history of Israel. Jehoshaphat, the king of Israel, received word from a friend that the combined armies of three enemy nations were on their way to fight him and conquer him. The chronicler tells us that these three nations were the […]
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July 18, 2019
How to live when times are good
What’s King Asa doing? No one’s attacking him. Everything’s peaceful, and this dude is building fortresses all over Judah. Well, there was trouble everywhere else. “All the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil. One nation was being crushed by another” (2 Chron icles 15:5). Asa figured that it was only a matter of […]
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July 17, 2019
Life after a disastrous, embarrassing sin
No doubt when David was trying to cover his sin, he was “missing God.” Keep in mind that David is the same man who wrote most of the Psalms, the man who told us that he longed for God like a deer longs for water. He wanted the joy he once had to be restored. […]
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July 16, 2019
The Art of Forgiveness
But how? We’ve spent the first half of this book considering some of the major whys of forgiveness. But like everything else in the Christian life, forgiving others is much more than what-fors and how-comes. Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs. On the […]
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July 15, 2019
Practice hospitality
When the Lord opened Lydia’s heart to respond to Paul’s message, she extended hospitality and persuaded Paul and Silas to stay at her house. Because she was a Gentile, this visit might have been quite an act: of faith on Paul and Silas’s part. Hospitality like Lydia’s was an important facet of ancient culture and […]
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