Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces, in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel, in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and MediaContinue reading “Esther 1: 1-9….Extravagance!”
Author Archives: Barry Hicks
John 5: 18…..How important is this?
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Comment: Whom we believe Jesus is makes the world of difference to how we think and live. We have justContinue reading “John 5: 18…..How important is this?”
John 5: 9-17….Was the Seventh Day Special.
And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healedContinue reading “John 5: 9-17….Was the Seventh Day Special.”
John 5: 1-9a…..That’s miraculous!
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eightContinue reading “John 5: 1-9a…..That’s miraculous!”
John 4: 46-54….Jesus seems to almost brush this man off!
So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he wasContinue reading “John 4: 46-54….Jesus seems to almost brush this man off!”
John 4: 28 & 39-45…..Fantastic.
So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him…….Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of theContinue reading “John 4: 28 & 39-45…..Fantastic.”
John4: 27-38….An intrupted interview
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me allContinue reading “John4: 27-38….An intrupted interview”
Amos 9: 10-15….Post Correction.
“In that day I will raise upthe booth of David that is fallenand repair its breaches,and raise up its ruinsand rebuild it as in the days of old,that they may possess the remnant of Edomand all the nations who are called by my name,”declares the LORD who does this.“Behold, the days are coming,” declares theContinue reading “Amos 9: 10-15….Post Correction.”
Amos 9: 5-9….God makes three claims.
The Lord GOD of hosts,he who touches the earth and it melts,and all who dwell in it mourn,and all of it rises like the Nile,and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;who builds his upper chambers in the heavensand founds his vault upon the earth;who calls for the waters of the seaand pours them outContinue reading “Amos 9: 5-9….God makes three claims.”
Amos 8: 23- 9: 4…..Trying to find an escape route.
In that day the lovely virgins and the young menshall faint for thirst.Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’they shall fall, and never rise again.”I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said:“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,andContinue reading “Amos 8: 23- 9: 4…..Trying to find an escape route.”
As I read it! 