Joel 2:13 (New Living Translation) Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. “God’s gonna getcha for that” (George Jones and Tammy […]
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Relenting and Punishing
September 16th, 2017 · No Comments
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The Outside and the Inside
September 10th, 2017 · No Comments
Joel 2:13 (New Living Translation) Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. At the time and place of the prophet Joel, […]
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Tear Your Hearts Instead
February 6th, 2016 · No Comments
Joel 3:13a (New Living Translation) Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead. I love the how the message is worded in this phrase. In the day of Joel the prophet, people would literally tear their clothes to express grief. I suppose what some people do today is punch or kick […]
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Selling Your Sons and Daughters
September 25th, 2011 · No Comments
Joel 3:7-8 (New International Version 2011) 7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, […]
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