2026-07-24 10:06 Hosea 6:10 "In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel is defiled."   God so often compares his people to a wanton woman, or an unfaithful spouse. I...

2026-07-23 10:44 Habakkuk 3:17-18 "Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in ...

2026-07-21 11:26 Mark 10:2 "And the Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?'"   Jesus replies "No" to this question, after explaining that the only reas...

2026-07-20 05:35 Psalm 19:9-10 "[T]he ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycombs."   ...

2026-07-19 08:27 Deuteronomy 15:20 "You shall eat [the firstling male of your herd and flock], you and your household, before the Lord your God year by year at the place which the Lord will choose."   I have heard p...

2026-07-17 09:39 Luke 19:8 "And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, 'Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.'"   Zacchaeus...

2026-07-16 10:13 Ecclesiastes 1:13, 18. "I applied my mind to seek and search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of man to be busy with. ... For in mu...

2026-07-15 05:51 Luke 6:24 "But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation."   This is a great follow-up to yesterday's post. In His Sermon on the Plain (in Luke's case), Jesus contrast...

2026-07-14 07:10 1 Samuel 2:5 "Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn."   We sh...

2026-07-12 06:53 Psalm 104:25-27 "Yonder is the sea, great and wide, which teams with things innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan which thou didst form to sport in it. The...