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Continue reading →: It Only Takes One Bite
Here’s something worth processing about how temptation actually operates. It rarely asks for everything up front. It asks for one bite, because one bite is genuinely all it needs. That’s the real danger tucked inside Daniel’s decision about the king’s food, and it’s the same danger running underneath most of…
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Continue reading →: It Was Never About The Food
Jerusalem has fallen. Young men have been carried off into exile. An empire is actively reshaping their entire lives from the inside out. And suddenly, the whole conversation turns to food. It almost feels small next to everything else going on. Almost. But this was never actually about food, and…
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Continue reading →: The Difference
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us have quietly confused these two words, and it’s costing us more than we realize. A preference says, I’d rather not. A conviction says, I cannot. That distinction is small enough to miss and important enough to build a life on, and it…
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Continue reading →: Decided
There’s a moment in Daniel Chapter 1 that changes everything, and if you read past it too quickly you’ll miss just how much weight it’s carrying. “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself.” That’s Verse 8, and up to this exact point in the story,…
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Continue reading →: Settled Beforehand
Here’s what gets me every time I dive into this passage. These four young men had every reason to lose themselves. Ripped from their families. Marched into a foreign, godless empire. Surrounded by a culture built specifically to erase everything they’d ever been taught. And they were teenagers doing it,…
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Continue reading →: What Your Name Was Meant To Say
There’s something almost unbearably tender about the fact that every time a Hebrew parent called their child’s name, they were preaching to them. Daniel. God is my judge. Hananiah. Yahweh has been gracious. Mishael. Who compares to God? Azariah. Yahweh has helped. These weren’t decorative titles. In that culture, a…
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Continue reading →: The First Thing Taken
If you want to understand how an empire conquers a people, don’t just watch what it destroys. Watch what it renames. When Babylon arrived in Jerusalem, the devastation was total. Homes were broken into. Families were separated, some of them permanently. Young men were marched out of the only city…
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Continue reading →: That One Sentence
There’s a phrase tucked into Daniel 1:2 that’s easy to read right past. It’s short, it’s almost administrative in tone, and if you’re moving quickly through the text you might miss what it’s actually saying. “And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand.” Read that again. Not…
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Continue reading →: The Unseen Drift
Nobody wakes up one morning and decides they want Babylon. That’s worth sitting with for a second, because it’s the whole key to understanding what happened to Judah. When you read Daniel Chapter 1, you land right in the middle of a national collapse. The city is under siege. The…
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Continue reading →: Storm Proof – New Release
Hey Guys, I have recently finished preaching through a very powerful sermon series, ‘Storm Proof,’ and had several requests to turn it into a book! I have just published it, and it includes a personal study guide for Bible Studies! If you would like to pre-order a copy, leave me…
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