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It's a set up
The phrase "it's a set up" usually means someone has been lured into a situation under the false pretense that is would be good, but it...
Rick LoPresti
Nov 3, 20174 min read
Fake repentance
When God sent Moses to Pharaoh to tell him to let His people go, God told Moses Pharaoh would harden his heart and refuse to do it (Ex...
Rick LoPresti
Oct 23, 20174 min read
Don't kill the Egyptian
God told Abraham that before his descendants would inherit the promised land, they would spend 400 years being mistreated in a strange...
Rick LoPresti
Oct 23, 20173 min read
Endurance
Sir Ernest Shackleton was a British Antarctic Explorer in the early 20th century. He tried twice to be the first to reach the South Pole,...
Rick LoPresti
Oct 17, 20174 min read
Binary code
This author wrote a paper in high school in 1983 about how we were going to become dependent on computers. At that time almost nobody had...
Rick LoPresti
Oct 13, 20173 min read
Logos and rhema
The New Testament was written in the Greek language. There are differences between ancient Greek and modern Greek; as well as between...
Rick LoPresti
Sep 28, 20177 min read
Thinking outside the box
There is a well known puzzle which is used to illustrate a point. It is a set of 9 dots in a square. The challenge is to connect the 9...
Rick LoPresti
Sep 23, 20177 min read
Discipline
The root word of disciple is discipline. Paul used athletic analogies several times to illustrate this: He used running: 1. Rom 9:16 –...
Rick LoPresti
Sep 16, 20174 min read
Birth pains
It is not a new revelation that when a woman gives birth, she goes through much pain. This can be traced back to Genesis 3:16 wherein God...
Rick LoPresti
Sep 10, 20174 min read
Don't take His name in vain
Exodus 20:7 says, "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his...
Rick LoPresti
Aug 31, 20173 min read
The power of incense
The tabernacle of Moses was full of symbolic items and procedures that foreshadowed things in the New Testament (Heb 8-10). One of the 5...
Rick LoPresti
Aug 25, 20175 min read
Signs following
It is not a new phenomenon that people get caught up with following "signs" of the second coming of Christ or other events. Moses warned...
Rick LoPresti
Aug 15, 20174 min read
The universal need for repentance
Some people told Jesus about an incident in which Pontius Pilate had some Galileans killed by mingling their blood with the blood of...
Rick LoPresti
Aug 10, 20175 min read
The high places
Today most people think of high places as areas of recreation - places to hike, climb, take pictures, enjoy a view, ski, etc. Military...
Rick LoPresti
Aug 1, 20173 min read
Does He love me?
“The Fiddler on the Roof” is a play and movie based on a Jewish story by Shalom Aleichem. It is a story about Jewish life in Tsarist...
Rick LoPresti
Jul 27, 20175 min read
The depression of selfishness
There is the depression that is also called clinical depression which is diagnosed by medical professionals, and there is the depression...
Rick LoPresti
Jul 26, 20173 min read
Virtual reality
The term "virtual reality" was first used in 1938 to describe the theater. As computer science advanced, it became a description of the...
Rick LoPresti
Jul 21, 20172 min read
Tender eyes
Man is fickle. That is why the only true standard is the Bible. Men cannot even agree on a standard of physical beauty. It varies with...
Rick LoPresti
Jul 14, 20174 min read
The value of fire
The laws of physics teach us the conservation of mass, matter, and energy. In summary, this means that in a closed system, there is no...
Rick LoPresti
Jul 11, 20174 min read
Enlarged borders
God spoke to Abraham 8 times (Gen 12:1-3 & 7, Gen 13:14-17, Gen 15, Gen 17, Gen 18, Gen 21:12-13, Gen 22:2-18). God promised him the land...
Rick LoPresti
Jul 3, 20173 min read
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