2022-02-06 10:06 Baruch 6:8-16. A description of the ultimate worthlessness and powerlessness of idols. God is warning his people that they will be in exile in Babylon for several generations. While there they will se...

2022-02-05 10:14 Amos 4:4-5. God says to the wicked women of Bashan who oppress the poor and crush the needy (who I blogged about in It's Time to Notice the Needs of Others) Come to Bethel and Gilgal, then, with y...

2022-02-04 08:28 Ezekiel 25:15-17. God says that because the Philistines acted revengefully and "took vengeance with malice of heart to destroy in never-ending enmity", therefore he shall stretch out his hand against ...

2022-02-03 10:21 Joshua 18:15-20. Another seemingly boring and inconsequential reading detailing the southern border of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. But nothing in the Bible is inconsequential! So why d...

2022-02-02 09:28 1 Maccabees 13:1-6. With a large army assembled against the land of Judah preparing to invade and destroy it, the people are trembling and fearful. Simon, the last living Maccabee brother, goes up to ...

2022-02-01 10:14 Zechariah 7:8-14. God tells Zechariah to tell the people to "Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to [each other], do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and l...

2022-01-31 09:37 Mark 7:24-30. Jesus goes to the region of Tyre and Sidon to a house where he hopes to be private for a while, but "he could not be hid." Immediately a Greek woman comes to him and asks him to drive th...

2022-01-30 10:58 Sirach 38:1-15. A tribute to physicians and trusting them when you are sick "for they too will pray to the Lord that he should grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preservin...

2022-01-29 10:26 2 Maccabees 15:28-34. After defeating Nicanor and his army in battle, the Jews are returning to Jerusalem with joy when they come upon Nicanor's body, dead from the battle. The "man who was ever i...

2022-01-28 08:45 2 Kings 18:36-37. A commander of the Assyrian army, the Rabshakeh, has just spoken to the people of Jerusalem saying that their God cannot save them from the might of the Assyrian army and they would ...