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In Search of Some Applicable Parables
2021-11-25 19:53 Matthew 13:13-16. Jesus is explaining to his disciples why he speaks in parables to the people. He says it is because "seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand." He...
Why Is It So Hard for Us to Hear the Truth?
2021-11-24 08:57 Luke 24:4-11. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and several other women went to Jesus' tomb to properly prepare his body with spices and ointments on the day after the Sabbath. When they g...
Isaiah, Chaos, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
2021-11-23 18:35 Isaiah 45:18-19. Isaiah tells us that "thus says the Lord who created the heavens (he is God!)" He formed earth and established it not to be a chaos but to be inhabited. He is the Lord and there is no...
Me Telling Jesus My Problems
2021-11-22 18:08 Psalm 69:16-21. A desperate cry to God when everyone and everything else has failed. "Answer me, O Lord, for thy steadfast love is good." Please do not hide your face from me, for I am in distress. Yo...
Exile and Time are Cleansing
2021-11-21 15:02 Jeremiah 27:19-22. Jeremiah says that God has declared that everything left behind in the house of the Lord in Jerusalem after it has been ransacked by Babylon will be taken to Babylon as well. Those ...
Are We Singing, or Just Mouthing the Words?
2021-11-20 11:50 Sirach 15:9-10. "A hymn of praise is not fitting on the lips of a sinner, for it has not been sent from the Lord. For a hymn of praise should be uttered in wisdom, and the Lord will prosper it."   W...
God is not Always as Understanding as We Tell Ourselves
2021-11-19 20:29 Luke 19:11-27. This is Luke's telling of the parable of the talents (or here, ten pounds) and the servant who hid his allotment until the master returned. I am more used to hearing this as told by...
Deal With Your Lust Before It Brings You Down
2021-11-17 08:22 Daniel 13:7-14. Two elders were individually giving in to lustful thoughts and actions regarding Susanna. They would watch her walk in her husband's garden every day. They each became "overwhelmed...
Sometimes We Should Trust and Stay Put
2021-11-16 10:17 2 Kings 25:22-26. After conquering Judah and taking most of its inhabitants into exile, Nebuchadnezzar leaves Gedaliah as governor there. When all the captains of the Hebrew forces who had been out fi...
Don't Come Yet, We're Still Getting Ready
2021-11-15 09:58 Song of Solomon 4:16. Just one verse, so here's the whole thing "Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his ga...