Daniel Botkin
- 4 days ago
“613 Commandments?!”
“Six hundred and thirteen commandments?! Forget it! I couldn’t even remember that many rules, let alone obey all of them!” That is often...
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Daniel Botkin
- Nov 20
Tattoos
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD” (Lev. 19:28). When I was a kid,...
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Daniel Botkin
- Nov 13
God Does Not Need Our Prayers
God does not need our prayers. God can do whatever He wants to do without our prayers. The Almighty is All Mighty. He does not need our...
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Daniel Botkin
- Nov 6
My Political Pilgrimage
A few years ago I had some of my artwork in a booth at an outdoor art fair in Peoria. A man stopped and looked at my work. He said he had...
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Daniel Botkin
- Oct 30
Amazing Grace & Amusing Grace
AMAZING GRACE I taught ESL (English as a Second Language) to foreign students for seven years. By teaching English, I became more aware...
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Daniel Botkin
- Oct 23
The Divine Presence: Omnipresence & Manifested Presence
After the children of Israel worshipped the golden calf and suffered the loss of about 3,000 men, God told Moses to go ahead and take the...
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Daniel Botkin
- Oct 16
The Flow of the Spirit
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. He that...
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Daniel Botkin
- Oct 9
The Ever-Burning Fire on the Altar
For most Christians, Leviticus is probably their least favorite book of the Bible. This is understandable, because until you read through...
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Daniel Botkin
- Oct 2
Taking the Name of the LORD in Vain
“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain” (Ex....
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Daniel Botkin
- Sep 25
Three of Satan’s Favorite Bible Passages for Clubbing Christians with Condemnation & Despair
Satan often twists the meaning of God’s Word and uses his distortion of truth as a weapon against God’s people. Satan uses his...
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Daniel Botkin
- Sep 18
Trees of Righteousness, or Reeds Shaken by the Wind?
When John the Baptist was in prison, Yeshua asked the multitudes, “What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the...
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Daniel Botkin
- Sep 11
Quit Griping & Do Something
Humans like to gripe. Even God’s people gripe. When the children of Israel griped and complained and murmured in the wilderness, it often...
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Daniel Botkin
- Sep 4
Holy Convocation: A Divine Imperative
Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome. -Emily...
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Daniel Botkin
- Aug 28
Relationships: Vertical & Horizontal, Diving & Human
When I was the pastor of our congregation several years ago, I designed the above three-pronged diagram as a visual aid to show the...
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Daniel Botkin
- Aug 21
Undeluding the Deluded
John wrote that “many deceivers are entered into the world” (2 John 7). This statement is as true today as it was in the first century....
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Daniel Botkin
- Aug 14
Charisma, Ecstasy, Mysticism, Trance
Charisma. Ecstasy. Mysticism. Trance. Words like these send up a red flag in the minds of many Bible believers. The words sound weird and...
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Daniel Botkin
- Aug 7
Perfect Peace & Fullness of Joy
God wants His children to have peace. One reason we know this is because the Aaronic Benediction ends with the words “The LORD lift up...
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Daniel Botkin
- Aug 1
Hebrew Word Study: Shabbat
Some people think the Hebrew word for Sabbath, shabbat, means “rest.” This is not entirely incorrect, but it is somewhat misleading. The...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 24
Can a Believer be Possessed by a Demon?
Can a true, born-again believer be possessed by a demon? It depends on what you mean by “possessed.” If you mean possession in terms of...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 17
Peer Pressure
To illustrate the danger of caving in to peer pressure, the late Elmer Josephson once wrote about an event that happened in the 1940s....
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 10
Just Enough Hebrew to be Dangerous
I have said it before and I say it again: You do not need to know Hebrew (or Greek or Aramaic) to have a close walk with the Lord and to...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jul 3
Being an Israelite In Deed
“And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, Which...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 26
“It Appertaineth Not Unto Thee”
“It appertaineth not unto thee.” These were words of correction and warning spoken to King Uzziah by the priests when King Uzziah went...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 19
As Christ Also Loved the Church . . .
In the New Testament, commandments are given to husbands and wives, telling men how to be godly husbands, and women how to be godly...
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