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Wailing in the Vineyard
2024-07-21 10:08 Amos 5:17. "'[A]nd in all the vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you.' says the Lord."   I think of vineyards as happy places - they're growing the gr...
Our Foundations Need to Be Exposed in Order to Be Repaired
2024-07-19 18:29 Micah 1:6. "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations." God has had it with ...
Beauty and the Bread
2024-07-18 06:25 Sirach 40:22. "The eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both."   Verses 18-27 of the 40th chapter of Sirach contain a list of comparisons of good things, reminding u...
Command is a Purposely Strong Word
2024-07-17 06:55 Deuteronomy 27:1. "Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying "Keep all the commandment which I command you this day."   There are three instances of the word "command" in this ...
The Time for Setting Boundaries
2024-07-15 09:17 Genesis 31:52 "This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm."   This is Jacob...
Everything Reflects the Splendor of What's to Come
2024-07-14 08:58 Corinthians 3:11 "For if what faded away came with splendor, what is permanent must have much more splendor."   Paul is comparing the splendor of the "dispensation of death" (the Old Covenant, the T...
"Lord, Open My Lips, and My Mouth Will Declare Your Praise"
2024-07-13 10:03 Matthew 9:33. "And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds marveled saying, 'Never was anything like this seen in Israel.'"   The man Jesus cured here was not ju...
The Best Lie is the Truth (Or Close to It!)
2024-07-11 09:35 Judith 11:13. "They have decided to consume the first fruits of the grain and the tithes of the wine and oil, which they had consecrated and set aside for the priests who minister in the presence of o...
Beware the Crooked Way
2024-07-10 09:02 Psalm 125:5 "But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!"   Beware of those "crooked ways", they don't always look so crooked, at...
The Minor Miracles of Everyday Life
2024-07-09 07:24 2 Kings 6:5-6 "But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, 'Alas, my master! It was borrowed.' Then [Elisha] said, 'Where did it fall?' When he sh...