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Church Discipline?
Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning, knowing that such a person is perverted and sins, being self-condemned. -...
dave57pope
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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A Man of His Word
These are the last words of David: “The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse, the utterance of them an exalted by the Most High, the...
dave57pope
Oct 8, 20241 min read
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No Wonder
For the grace of God has appeared with salvation for all people, instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a...
dave57pope
Oct 7, 20241 min read
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Prayer Keys
After this, God answered prayer for the land. - 2 Samuel 21:14 After a severe three-year famine, God informed King David that it was all...
dave57pope
Oct 6, 20241 min read
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Revival?
They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. - Titus 1:16 For most of my life, I was aligned with one particular...
dave57pope
Oct 5, 20242 min read
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Our Enemy Must Die
The king commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, "Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake." All the people heard the king's orders to...
dave57pope
Oct 4, 20241 min read
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Growing Up or Just Old
Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. - Titus 2:2 I am gradually...
dave57pope
Oct 3, 20241 min read
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Accepted or Not
When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He set...
dave57pope
Oct 2, 20241 min read
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Flaws and All
Bring Mark with you, for he is useful to me in the ministry. - 2 Timothy 4:11 On the first missionary journey with Paul, Barnabas brought...
dave57pope
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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A Leader's Test of Success
However, if He should say, "I do not delight in you," then here I am — He can do with me whatever pleases Him. - 2 Samuel 15:26 As David...
dave57pope
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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Go Far Together
But as for you, keep a clear head about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. - 2 Timothy 4:5...
dave57pope
Sep 29, 20241 min read
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Devoted to the King?
But in response, Ittai vowed to the king, "As surely as YHWH lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether...
dave57pope
Sep 28, 20241 min read
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Don't Scratch It!
For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will accumulate teachers for...
dave57pope
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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Beware Presumption
David responded to Nathan, "I have sinned against YHWH." Then Nathan replied to David, "YHWH has taken away your sin; you will not die."...
dave57pope
Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Rub a Little Truth In It
... proclaim the message, persist in it whether convenient or not. - 2 Timothy 4:2 Paul, in his last letter to Timothy (his son in the...
dave57pope
Sep 25, 20241 min read
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Only Repentance
Why then have you despised the command of the Lord by doing what I consider evil? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and...
dave57pope
Sep 24, 20241 min read
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A Durable Mission
Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. - 2...
dave57pope
Sep 23, 20241 min read
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Leave the Rest to Him
And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come...
dave57pope
Sep 22, 20241 min read
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Speak Up or Shut Up
Before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom, I solemnly charge you:...
dave57pope
Sep 21, 20241 min read
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What a King
So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table just like one of the king’s sons. - 2 Samuel 9:11 After King David had defeated all of Israel's...
dave57pope
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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