Before Israel was enslaved in Egypt, Abraham enslaved an immigrant. Hagar’s story confronts us with a painful truth: the people of promise can become the people of oppression. But the God of Scripture is not blind. He hears. He sees. And he meets “The Immigrant” in the wilderness.

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Before Hollywood imagined King Ghidorah, Scripture introduced a far more terrifying dragon. Leviathan—the twisting serpent of Job, the seven-headed sea monster of Psalm 74, the chaos creature defeated in Isaiah and echoed in Revelation—lurks beneath the surface of the biblical story. But this isn’t mythology for mythology’s sake. It’s a polemic. Yahweh, not Baal, not Yam, not the dragon, rules the sea. And in the already-not-yet kingdom, the chaos serpent has been crushed… and will be crushed again.

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During a deliverance session, the Holy Spirit gave a surprising answer: “This isn’t a demon problem. It’s a sin problem.” What if some of what we blame on spiritual warfare is actually about responsibility? Let’s revisit 1 Corinthians 10:13 and reclaim the empowering truth about temptation, agency, and the way of escape.