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The death of God upon the Cross was the most significant event in all history. The Apostle Peter wrote:

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter

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You are unique in all the universe. Billions have existed, but there is only one you.

You are known to God. The Lord Jesus said, 'Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of (cont'd)

Amos was the blue collar prophet; a shepherd and sycamore fig farmer from the southern village of Tekoa. Near the end of each summer he would herd his flocks to places such as western Judah where the sycamore figs grew. To pay the local landowners for grazing rights, Amos would pierce holes in (cont'd)

Of all the prophets of the Old Testament, there is none into whose heart we see so clearly; whose internal struggles are laid so bare as Jeremiah. He shares his five Confessions which are recorded in Book 1, chapters 11 - 20 of his prophecy. These are his confessions of those things (cont'd)

The book of 2 Kings describes Hezekiah as a good man. 2 Kings 18:3 says, And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. Only he and his great-grandson Josiah tore down the high places [the hilltop altars to pagan deities]. They (cont'd)

The prophet Habakkuk wrote:

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice (cont'd)