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Listening to some preaching recently on gifts and giving, the preacher made several references to the fact that we should not be laying up treasures here, but should be building up our treasures in heaven. Verses like Matthew 6:19-20 were referred to, the fact that God is no mans debtor and Paul...

In verse 25 of 2 Kings 17, we read that God sent the lions to devour the people. It then says "the god... has sent lions among them" I have a question - did the lions have any special significance - i.e are they linked to Assyrian gods in any way? What lead them to believe that it was the gods!

I was in a communion service in a independent evangelical church, and was surprised to here the following:- "If we do not take communion regularly our faith will be the worse for it. In taking communion regularly, our faith is strengthened." Now, the following comments were made after this:-...

Often in the Bible we read of people being at the right hand of a person (or God in the case of Christ) and I had always thought that this related to a postion of power, strength, and authority. I went to a Bible study last night and the person there said it related to a Jewish custom at...

In 1 Samuel 17, after the battle with David, Saul asks, "As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is that young man?â€" v 55 - but in 1 Samuel 16 David had already been introduced to Saul " One of the servants...

I have been reading Luke 19 etc over the Easter period. Looking at the events I see that when Jesus was in Bethany he said "Come let us go now to Jerusalem" Looking at subsequent events:- Because of threats to his life, Jesus withdraws to Ephraim to the north of...