By Jill Roberts
Posted: June 2, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael says, with regard to this Old Testament Book of Leviticus, “God gave specific rules, even one that included God’s smell of the offerings of the Israelites!” As Michael points out, Leviticus 1:9 records, “It is a burnt offering , a food offering, an AROMA
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: May 27, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé There is something about looking back over a study, a story, that so focuses the mind that great clarity is its result. As God’s Book of Exodus draws to a close, this is exactly what Michael and I are viewing. It is the Big Picture of where
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: May 20, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé If I were called upon to narrow to one word, my reaction to God, as depicted in the Old Testament and about Whom Michael and I have been writing over the past 48 weeks, I would unhesitatingly choose the word, “Surprise.” Michael, whose grasp of the LORD
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: May 12, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé With great insight into this storied Exodus Chapter 32, Michael says, “The Israelites created another god within moments.” The entire passage of time from the inception of the idea to replace the one true God, the Creator of the Universe, with an idol, a golden calf,
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: May 5, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé How tempting, and even easy, it is to superimpose on God our own thoughts and worldviews. Because He is admittedly unknowable to any great degree of confidence, we tend to simply demur to the prospect of trying to “figure Him out,” and, instead, just think of Him as
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: April 29, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Does it seem counterintuitive that the Bible sets forth that we soar the highest when we have boundaries, when there are rules in our lives? At first blush, certainly, this appears to be a dichotomy with all the contradictions that this word implies. However, it is critical to
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: April 17, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Tucked away in Exodus 18 is a little story, almost a vignette, that is actually quite important, even monumental, both in the place where we left Moses and the Israelites last week and within the context of where they are going in the next few weeks. This
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: April 3, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Have you ever wondered about exactly what we will be doing throughout eternity in the New Heaven and New Earth? Scripture is silent on the details but there is one very reasonable inference that we can draw, based on what God prioritizes while we are still here on
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: March 23, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé What is it in human nature that causes us to see an amazing outpouring of God’s power and love, something that, in the beginning, we celebrate with deep gratitude and great fanfare, and then to find ourselves doubting Him and our very core beliefs? Some time ago, Michael
Continue Reading “GOD IS CRADLING YOU — SEEING THE TRUE GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT”
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: March 16, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Have you ever had the experience of having seen, time and time again, the great power of God in your life or even in the lives of others, and yet, when a new challenge or trial arises, to find yourself full of doubt in God? With each such
Continue Reading ““WAS IT BECAUSE THERE WERE NO GRAVES IN EGYPT!” — GOD, MAN AND FREE WILL”
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