2021-12-20 08:58 Hosea 7:14-16. God says he will chasten Ephraim because "they do not cry to me from the heart." They wail, yes, and gash themselves for food and wine, but they do not recognize their God. He trained a...

2021-12-18 11:19 Haggai 2:2-9. God tells Haggai to go and speak to the remnant of the people, including the king and governor and high priest, and tell them that though none of them may remember or have seen "this hou...

2021-12-17 09:53 Psalm 89:30-37. God promises that David's line shall endure forever. If his children violate God's statutes their transgressions will be punished, "but I will not remove from him my steadfast ...

2021-12-16 11:41 1 Samuel 9:1-4. The beginning of Saul's story. We are introduced to his father, Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a man of wealth. Kish has a son, Saul, who is very tall and handsome. Kish sends Sau...

2021-12-15 08:05 Jeremiah 22:24-30. God is telling Jeremiah to write down his proclamation against Coniah, the king of Judah. God is going to banish him and his mother to another land. He is going to deliver him into ...

2021-12-14 12:31 Matthew 10:24-25. A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for them to be like their teacher or their master. And if their master is called evil names, then hi...

2021-12-13 08:40 2 Chronicles 22:1-5. Ahaziah is made King of Judah after his father's death. Ahaziah was the youngest of the king's sons, but all of his older brothers had been slain. "[T]o his undoing," he h...

2021-12-11 10:55 Revelation 17:7-14. A angel is trying to explain to John the meaning of some of his visions. John has seen a woman (identified as the harlot, and as Babylon, mother of Earth's abominations) seated...

2021-12-10 12:22 2 John 4-11. John urges us to remain in the truth and to love one another. "And this is love, that we follow his commandments ... For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not ackn...

2021-12-09 10:33 Colossians 3:12-16. Paul reminds us, as God's chosen ones, to put on compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness and patience; to forbear and forgive one another, as God has forgiven us. And "above ...