Daniel Botkin
Feb 26, 2023
OBITUARY: Buttercup Botkin 2008 - 2023
Buttercup Botkin of East Peoria passed away on January 31, 2023, just a couple weeks shy of her 15th birthday. Buttercup was born in...
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 19, 2023
Rebirth of a Dead Language: A Short History of Hebrew
The Hebrew language has a history unlike the history of any other language. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70, the...
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 12, 2023
Sports
I never had a lot of interest in sports. In high school I was on the boys’ swim team for a while. Back then, the bigots wouldn’t allow...
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 5, 2023
Our Treatment of People
I recently read through the four Gospels again for the umpteenth time. I did not get any new revelation, but I did get an important...
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 29, 2023
Leaving the Ninety-Nine: The Parable of the Lost Sheep
“And He spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety...
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 22, 2023
A Hot Furnace & A Cool Chimney
In the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matt. 25:1-13), the five foolish virgins took no oil for their lamps, but the five wise virgins took...
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 15, 2023
Stop Trusting Your Feelings
Feelings are part of being human. Feelings are a blessing in their proper place, but a curse when misused. People often express their...
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 8, 2023
Take Off Your Tinfoil Hat & Stop Acting Stupid
I might lose some readers here, but I’m going to say it anyway. Take off your tinfoil hat and stop acting stupid. Quit behaving as if all...
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 1, 2023
The Book of Books
The Bible speaks about the Holy of holies, the Song of songs, the God of gods, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. In the...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 25, 2022
Mary, Mother of Messiah
The Roman Catholic Church elevates Mary to the status of Regina Caeli, “Queen of heaven,” and declares her to be the Mediatrix, the...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 18, 2022
Serving the LORD
“As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (Josh. 24:15). Lots of believers have the above verse hanging on a wall somewhere in...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 11, 2022
Unconditional Surrender (“Thank God for the Atom Bomb”)
Around 1990 I read a book by Paul Fussell, a World War 2 veteran who became a college professor, author, and literary critic. The title...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 9, 2022
The Attack Against God-Ordained Binary Gender Distinction
BINARY GENDER: ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF CREATION binary: something made of two things or parts; compounded or consisting of or marked by...
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 27, 2022
“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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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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