Tom Skeie

Investment Strategy

“Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.” Isaiah 41:21-23 ESV Reflection: what investment strategy do you follow, especially now as the world seem to […]

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To My Friend

“fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 ESV Reflection: to whom do the promises, the covenants of the Lord belong to?  The focus verse today is such a

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Righteous Judgement

“Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.” Isaiah 41:1 ESV Reflection: why should we be concerned with righteous judgments?  One of my favorite movie genre is a legal case argued before a courtroom; in particular

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New Strength

“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;“ Isaiah 40:29-30 ESV Reflection: why does strength from God depend on our weakness?  We looked yesterday at how everything we experience in life, we measure against

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Stand In Awe

“Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?” Isaiah 40:21 ESV Reflection: what do you compare God to?  Seems to me as we experience everything in reference to something else. We might say we have had

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The Best News

“Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”” Isaiah 40:9 ESV Reflection: what is the best news you could receive today?  News is a

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Given New Life

“Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”” Isaiah 38:21-22 ESV Reflection: what is on top of your mind today?  Let’s use our

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Change Of Plans

“In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”” Isaiah 38:1 ESV Reflection: is it possible for us to

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Beyond Our Abilities

“And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.” Isaiah 37:36 ESV Reflection: why does the Lord seem to give us more than we can handle at times? Heard a story about

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Shape Of The Heart

“Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust?”Isaiah 36:4 NKJV Reflection: how do you know if you have received Jesus “in your heart”?  I was listening to a sermon yesterday, that shed some additional light for

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