2024-10-03 06:43 Song of Solomon 8:1 "O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me."   The Song of Solomon is a love ...

2024-10-02 08:51 Isaiah 17:3 "The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts."   Isaiah is ...

2024-09-30 07:55 Colossians 1:13-14. "He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."   Just yesterday I ...

2024-09-29 08:54 Psalm 7:1-2 "O Lord my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me, lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away with none to rescue."   David, of course, had many...

2024-09-28 11:10 John 5:12 "They asked him, 'Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?'"    The Jews who are intent on trapping Jesus are questioning the formerly lame man who ...

2024-09-26 05:37 Ezekiel 22:4. "You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by the idols which you have made; and you have brought your day near, the appointed time of your years has come. The...

2024-09-25 09:58 Tobit 1:4 "Now when I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was still a young man, the whole tribe of Naphtali my forefather deserted the house of Jerusalem. This was the place which h...

2024-09-24 06:36 Isaiah 46:7 "They lift [their idol] upon their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place."   I wrote about the earlier verses of this pas...

2024-09-22 10:44 Psalm 31:1 "In thee, O Lord, do I seek refuge; let me never be put to shame; in thy righteousness deliver me!"   What puts us to shame? Shame is different from embarrassment, and David is not asking...

2024-09-21 10:32 Proverbs 29:9 "If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet."    More and more lately I have found that speaking reason to people, in the calmest ...