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Devotion – Exodus 10
Posted November 19th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard

Remember the Rocky movies.  Sylvester Stallone plays the great champion, Rocky Balboa.  In Rocky III, the champion Balboa has a new challenger on the horizon.  Clubber Lang (Mr. T) begins to challenge Rocky, calling him a chump.  Rocky gets mad and accepts a fight with Lang, but he hasn’t really considered the abilities and strength […]

Devotion – Exodus 9
Posted October 29th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard

When reading the story of the plagues, one character continues to pop up and intrigue.  Pharoah was the ruler of the Egyptian people, and was a proud man.  The Egyptians believed their Pharoah was really half man, half god.  He saw himself as invinceable, and was unwilling to let Moses or even God Himself bring […]

Devotion – Exodus 8
Posted October 22nd, 2008 by Mike Hubbard

This chapter is about annoyance.  God sends three plagues in chapter 8; a multitude of frogs, gnats, and flies.  I actually think my daugther, Alex, would like the frogs part, but maybe not so much if there were like fifty in her room.  I’ve been to places where gnats just seemed to swarm everywhere, and […]

Devotion – Exodus 7
Posted October 8th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard

Exodus seven begins the story of the 10 plagues in Egypt.  God is about to bring an incredible judgement on the Egyptian people and on Pharoah.  Each plague is a little more devastating, and more intense, brought by God as a just response to the horrible slavery and oppression of the Hebrews.  And Pharoah’s response […]

Devotion – Exodus 6
Posted September 30th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard

Have you ever had someone make a promise to you, then fail to keep it?   Maybe when you were a kid, a parent promised to spend time with you and forgot.  It could be a friend who said they would spend time with you and failed to make it happen.  For some reading this, a […]