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Esther 5

Esther chapter 5 reminds me of how easily we can get distracted from enjoying the joys around us. As the chapter begins, Esther had been

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Job 5

Job 5 reminds me of the televangelists we see today that tell us we are only sick or poor because we don’t have enough faith.

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Psalms 5

Psalm 5 reminds me that our prayer is interactive. We don’t just submit requests to God and wait for a receipt. Our prayer time is

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Genesis 5

Genesis chapter 5 gives us, “Adam’s line”, the genealogy of Adam. It does not give us a listing of all of the offspring of Adam

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Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5 reminds me of a line in a song from the 1960’s, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”. While I am

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Ecclesiastes 5

Ecclesiastes 5 reminds me of the often misquoted scripture, “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil“. The preceding chapter spoke

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Song of Solomon 5

Song of Solomon 5 reminds me of the lyrics to an old song, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”. Sometimes this sad

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Isaiah 5

Isaiah 5 reminds me of an old commercial that ended with Orson Wells looking at the camera, saying “We will sell no wine before its

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Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5 reminds me of the expression so overused that it has lost its meaning: “Been there, done that”. Sometimes, instead of listening to the

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Ezekiel 5

Ezekiel 5 reminds me of the story of the tortoise and the hare. I have never been the fastest, the strongest or the smartest. I

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