Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 11/16/2022 - 11:56am
Exodus 23:2
Whenever the Bible says something, it will also give us an explanation and an example (or many examples).
The children of Israel had just been delivered from the bondage of Egypt. And in the verse above God is telling them not to follow a large group of people who are going to do the wrong thing. So, consider the words “multitude” and “evil”.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:50pm
Nehemiah 6.3
These words of Nehemiah sound rather arrogant.
They are not.
Nehemiah had a job to do. There were troublesome, wicked, ungodly people trying to stop him. They were trying to intimidate him. Distract him. Bully him.
“I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work,
so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease,
whilst I leave it, and come down to you?”
Nehemiah is simply asking a question: “why should the work cease..?”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 11/05/2022 - 3:55pm
Exodus 12:32
This is one of the most odd statements I have ever read in the Bible!
It’s odd because of who said it!
It was Pharaoh… Pharaoh who had constantly refused to let the children of Israel leave Egypt! God had brought all the plagues on him and on Egypt, the final one being the death of the first- born sons in Egypt, including his first-born son and heir! So now he finally tells the children of Israel to leave Egypt! That’s the context for what he said.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 10/25/2022 - 11:43am
2 Timothy 2:1
TRUE STORY…
My handgun was held at the low ready in my right hand.
I came out the front door of the church and rolled around to the right, to the corner of the building. It’s an awkward position to keep going around corners to the right, but the adrenaline was pumping and I didn’t think to swap hands. I cleared that corner and went down the left side of the building.
It was dark, the evening service had just finished. I knew the threat i.e., the guy with the gun, was somewhere around the outside of the church.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 10/13/2022 - 6:01pm
Galatians 3.2
That’s a fair question!
Let’s look at it phrase by phrase:
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 11:43am
Hebrews 12.2
Out along a country lane is a field with two horses in it. From a distance, each looks like every other horse. But if one is walking by, one will notice something quite amazing.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Mon, 09/26/2022 - 7:54am
Psalm 88.13
The word “prevent” here means, “to meet, hasten, or to be in front of”, and the Psalmist here is speaking to the Lord from his heart in saying that his prayer is going to be in front of the Lord. It is going to go meet the Lord. His prayer is going to be going early in the morning to the Lord!
Could we start praying as soon as we wake up in the morning? However we wake up, or for whatever reason, could we start praying immediately when we wake up?
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sun, 09/25/2022 - 7:06am
James 4.7b
The Bible tells us a few things about the devil, and one of them is that he is a counterfeit, and the master of disguise.
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” 2 Corinthians 11:14
The devil is the master of half-truths and deception. At the very beginning he questioned the Word of God, deceiving Eve. Then he tempted our Lord Jesus by trying to throw doubt on Who He was as well as throwing doubt on the Word of God itself.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 09/17/2022 - 8:54am
Deuteronomy 17:16
Don’t go back! The Lord was reminding the Jews that they had been freed from captivity in Egypt – don’t go back!
It’s the same when a person becomes a born again Christian. Free from captivity to sin, free from the sin of bad habits, bad attitudes, sadness, selfishness, loneliness, and a life full of trouble!
The song says it so well, “Free from the law, Oh happy condition! Jesus hath bled and there is remission! Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall - Christ hath redeemed us, once for all!”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 8:55am
Whenever I come across this verse, I find that I need it!
There are times when we seem to go, go, go! But we wonder whether we are getting anywhere. Sometimes we give a lot of ourselves doing what we believe the Lord has asked us to do - and we are worn out!
Sometimes we may wonder, are we like Martha to whom the Lord said, “Martha, thou art careful (full of care) and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Mary chose to listen to Jesus. (Luke 10:41-42)
