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That Sure Tastes Good!
Who satisfies your mouth with good things… Psalm 103:5a Psalm 37: 3 declares: “Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” There, the

From Redemption to Royalty
In the first half of Psalm 103:4, God redeems us. Then, with only the separation of the pause of a comma, in the second half of the same verse, He crowns us. In other words,

Put Away Childish Things
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11) What
“The Black Fortress, was built by Herod the Great in the gorge of” “Callirhoe, one of the wadies 9 miles east of the Dead Sea, as a” frontier rampart against Arab marauders. John the Baptist was probably cast into the prison connected with this castle by “Herod Antipas, whom he had reproved for his adulterous marriage” “with Herodias. Here Herod “made a supper” on his birthday. He” “was at this time marching against Aretas, king of Perea, to” whose daughter he had been married. During the revelry of the “banquet held in the border fortress, to please Salome, who” “danced before him, he sent an executioner, who beheaded John,” “and “brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel” “(Mark 6:14-29). This castle stood “starkly bold and clear” 3,860″ “feet above the Dead Sea, and 2,546 above the Mediterranean. Its” “ruins, now called M’khaur, are still visible on the northern end” of Jebel Attarus.
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