2025-08-19 07:29 Exodus 10:23 "[The Egyptians] did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the people of Israel had light where they dwelt."   I'm reposting below a reflectio...

2025-08-18 08:21 Wisdom 5:12 "[O]r as, when an arrow is shot at a target, the air, thus divided, comes together at once, so that no one knows its pathway."   Solomon is warning that when we have given ourselves over...

2025-08-17 11:39 Revelation 22:21 "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen."   This is the last line of the Bible. John has just testified to Revelation, with all of its terror and hopefulness. He h...

2025-08-16 10:11 1 John 2:26-27 "I write this to you about those who would deceive you; but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you, as his anointing ...

2025-08-15 09:55 Luke 18:2 "He said 'In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man'".   This is the judge whom the widow will, through persistence, eventually prevail upon to vi...

2025-08-14 06:41 Judith 8:8 "No one spoke ill of [Judith], for she feared God with great devotion."   It is not always true that one who is devoted to God is spared from ill speech against her. Sometimes, the holier...

2025-08-13 08:48 Psalm 18:29 "Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall."   David is rejoicing in the power of God that flows into us when we are doing His will. When we are with God, as...

2025-08-11 08:07 2 Kings 18:5 "[Hezekiah] trusted in the Lord the God of Israel; so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him."   It is very early, but ...

2025-08-09 12:21 Sirach 11:8 "Do not answer before you have heard, nor interrupt a speaker in the midst of his words."   The practical wisdom of Sirach really doesn't need to be expounded upon. I am grateful for...

2025-08-08 09:14 Isaiah 24:16 "From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, 'I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treach...