Posts from November 2010

Jesus’ miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 speaks of the compassion of Jesus, but also of the grace and power of Jesus. And it was clearly intended to confront both His disciples as well as the crowd with who He was. On the question of the power of Jesus John MacArthur writes: As we look back on the scene from our two-thousand-year vantage point, it seems impossible…

In Joshua 9 we read of how Joshua, using human wisdom and human counsel instead of God’s wisdom and God’s counsel entered into a covenant of friendship with people he later realised were inhabitants of Canaan and under God’s judgement. It proved to be a wrong decision, involving the sin of not seeking God’s counsel on Joshua’s part, and in no small measure the…