Daniel Botkin
Sep 11, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
“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, 2022
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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Daniel Botkin
Jun 12, 2022
Dino Dan & The Dope Debate
Starting January 1, 2020, it became legal in Illinois to use marijuana for “recreational” purposes. So for over two years now, it has...
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Daniel Botkin
Jun 5, 2022
The Real Meaning of Messianic
Congregations like the one I attend are most commonly described as Messianic, and the movement with which I identify is commonly called...
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Daniel Botkin
May 29, 2022
Christians Keeping Old Testament Commandments: Not a Yes/No Question, But a Question of Which Ones
When talking to Christians about keeping the commandments of the Torah, Old Testament “law” (or, more accurately, “instruction”), it is...
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Daniel Botkin
May 22, 2022
Psalm 19: A Two-Fold Revelation of God
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night...
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Daniel Botkin
May 15, 2022
Mixed Feelings About Fun
FUN, n. Sport; vulgar merriment. A low word. (Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language) Like most people, I enjoy...
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Daniel Botkin
May 8, 2022
Flat Earth: A Doctrine of Demons?
Some of you may not know it, but there is a growing number of otherwise intelligent people who actually believe the earth is flat. Flat...
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Daniel Botkin
May 1, 2022
The Necessity of Non-Punitive Suffering
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might...
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Daniel Botkin
Apr 24, 2022
PASSOVER: A Time for Separating Hebrews from Egyptians
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who put everybody into one of two categories, and those who don’t. I do because the...
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Daniel Botkin
Apr 17, 2022
Respecting Roman Catholics – Protesting Roman Catholicism
Christians who are not Roman Catholic are usually referred to as Protestants. The word Protestant comes from the word protest, so another...
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Daniel Botkin
Apr 10, 2022
Exposing Uncleanness & Weighing the Spirits
“All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits” (Prov. 16:2). To rationalize means to try to justify...
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Daniel Botkin
Apr 3, 2022
OCD and Autistic Traits in the Godhead?
Autistic people are often afflicted with severe OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). We have seen this in our autistic daughter Autumn....
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