God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22   Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24  Therefore Amen. 26  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity

Isaiah 1:1–20 (NASB95) 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem , which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Listen They will be like wool. 19 “If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land; 20

But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2   so she said to Abram, “The L ORD has kept me from having Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 26 Q.

By the time Solomon died, the once-united kingdom stood on the brink of fracture. 1 Kings 12:1–24 (NIV ) 12 Rehoboam [Solomon's son] went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. 2  When Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David. 21  When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, , to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, 24  ‘This is what the L ORD  says: Do not -29 ).

pinnacle, with Solomon’s wisdom and wealth drawing the nations to Jerusalem. 1 Kings 11:1–13 (NIV) 10:23  King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. 24  The whole many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2  

or image made of you; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 2

2   The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” 20 Adam named his wife Eve,  because she would become the mother of all the living. 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24

a king like all the other nations to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles (1 Sa. 8:20 Saul was no slouch - he stood a head taller than all the people (1 Sa. 9:2 & 10:23).

Today: Mark 2

evil in the eyes of the L ORD , and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2   inside, prepared a young goat, and... he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. -- 21 And the angel of the L ORD disappeared. 22  When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the L ORD ,