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HERO OF FAITH FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE

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Meet Noah: A Righteous Man The Bible Says Noah Was Blameless Among the People of His Time Share Flipboard Email  Noah Building the Ark by Vittorio Bianchini. SuperStock / Getty Images by Mary Fairchild Updated April 13, 2017 In a world taken over by evil, violence, and corruption, Noah was a righteous man. However, Noah wasn't just a righteous man; he was the only follower of God left on the earth. The Bible says he was blameless among the people of his time. It also says he walked with God. Living in a society saturated with sin and rebellion against God, Noah was the only man alive that pleased God. It's hard to imagine such unwavering faithfulness in the midst of total godlessness. Over and over again, in the account of Noah, we read, "Noah did everything just as God commanded." His life of 950 years, exemplified obedience. During Noah's generation, the wickedness of man had covered the earth like a flood. God decided to resta...

DAILY DEVOTIONAL

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What Is God Like?   July 1, 2018   Read: Hebrews 1:1–10 | Bible in a Year: Job 20–21; Acts 10:24–48 00:00  Download MP3 Subscribe to iTunes The Son is . . . the exact representation of [God’s] being. Hebrews 1:3 To celebrate a special occasion, my husband took me to a local art gallery and said I could choose a painting as a gift. I picked out a small picture of a brook flowing through a forest. The streambed took up most of the canvas, and because of this much of the sky was excluded from the picture. However, the stream’s reflection revealed the location of the sun, the treetops, and the hazy atmosphere. The only way to “see” the sky was to look at the surface of the water. Jesus is like the stream, in a spiritual sense. When we want to see what God is like, we look at Jesus. The writer of Hebrews said He is “the exact representation of [God’s] being” (1:3). Although we can learn facts about God through direct statements in the Bible such as “Go...