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A Boy and His Dog
2021-11-29 10:01 Tobit 5:16. Tobit, having met and welcomed the angel Raphael into his home (thinking he was a distant relative), tells Tobias to prepare for his journey. He wishes Tobias great success and tells him "...
God Takes No Pleasure in Death, Even When Justice Demands It
2021-11-28 10:05 2 Chronicles 23:12-18. After much intrigue, death, and machinations (the Old Testament is so much like Game of Thrones!), the rightful heir, the king's young son, is crowned king by the high pries...
Joyful Praise Works Wonders
2021-11-27 11:07 Psalm 69:30-33. I will praise God with a song and magnify him with thanksgiving. This will please him more than the offering of an ox or a bull. Let the oppressed see my praise and be glad; you who se...
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...