Tom Skeie

This Is Our God

“It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”” Isaiah 25:9 ESV Reflection: what are you longing for?  Much of the central to eastern […]

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Never Rebuilt

“O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners’ palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.” Isaiah

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Weight Of Sin

“The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.” Isaiah 24:19-20 ESV Reflection: why is sin equated to a heavy weight?  We have

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Few Are Left

“The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.” Isaiah 24:5-6 ESV Reflection: who should we be grateful

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Would Not Listen

“In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth; and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”” Isaiah 22:12-13 ESV Reflection: why do children disobey their parents?  Perhaps the most

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Pure Wheat

“O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.” Isaiah 21:10 ESV Reflection: why does the Lord seem to allow certain difficult things to happen in our lives?  With the advancement in technology and production, it is easy to lose the

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Carved Images

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.””Isaiah 21:9 ESV Reflection: why is God so against “carved images” of gods?  Walking into many oriental stores, restaurants, even homes, you often see a small figurine of a cat with one waving arm placed close to the

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On The Lookout

“For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees. When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently.” Then he who saw cried out: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my

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God Of The Nations

“In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”” Isaiah 19:24-25 ESV Reflection: who are “God’s people”?  Read the focus

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Turn To The Lord

“In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.”Isaiah 17:7-8 ESV Reflection:

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