Everyone knows that the human body needs somewhere between 6 and 8 hours of sleep. For some people they want a lot more. For other people (like myself) coffee and caffeine become a sleep replacement drug. (Our friend Eutychus today could have used some nectar of the gods himself) Some of us are night owls. Others are morning people (ew).
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Did you know there’s a story of a nearly naked man who followed Jesus the night he was betrayed? Did you know he fled completely naked afterward? Now you do!
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David is the King Elect for the nation of Israel. Yet that isn’t enough to marry a princess. Instead, he has to collect 200 foreskins from the Philistine enemies. I bet that made for some crazy family stories. For us, it makes for a crazy Bible story!
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Moses wasn’t always the bravest and the brightest leader of Israel. First, his calling starts off with fear and foolishness. Then, it progresses to a much stranger story involving his son’s… foreskin?
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Jesus and the Sword Take a moment and think about all the stories that you know about Jesus. Do any of them have a sword in them? Probably not. Unless you are thinking of the book of Revelation where Jesus comes back as a conqueror, the closest violent based story most people can come up with is when he makes
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The Story of Ehud Today’s crazy Bible story comes from the book of Judges. In the third chapter we meet a man by the name of Ehud. Good news for you left handed people; you are specifically mentioned in this story as Ehud was able to do what he needed to because he was a left handed person. I wonder,
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Goals If you have ever had any kind of mentor, or leader in your life one of the things that they probably told you was to make sure that you always have some goals in your life. Some people might call this a five year plan, or a ten year plan. Others may refer to these goals as a bucket
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Jabez is not a name in the Bible that most people are familiar with. As a matter of fact, if you polled 50 regular church attending people, I would be surprised if even 5 of them have heard of Jabez (unless the minister preached a sermon on him). This is not the case for me. Jabez is someone who I
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In case you haven’t noticed, the Bible is absolutely crazy. It is filled with bizarre and crazy Bible stories. Some of these crazy Bible stories we might have actually heard in Sunday School class or in church or perhaps through some kind of children’s video series. After all, everyone knows the story of Samson’s strength or David’s slaying of Goliath,
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