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Put Down Those Raisin Cakes!
2021-10-18 08:09 Hosea 3. God tells Hosea to go and love a woman (his wife, in other translations) who is an adulteress, for that is how God loves the people of Israel even though they turn to other gods "and love cak...
The Beauty in Doing God's Work
2021-10-17 09:53 Exodus 38:17-20. Part of the description of the work of Bezalel who was overseeing the construction of the sanctuary at Moses' command. Here we learn that the bases of the pillars were bronze, wit...
Threshing the World
2021-10-16 17:54 Isaiah 41:14-16. God tells Israel, "you worm Jacob," not to worry or fear - he will help them. Their Redeemer is the Holy one of Israel, so they need not fear anything. He will make them a threshing s...
A Mother's Troubled Heart
2021-10-15 16:26 Tobit 10:6-7. Tobias' mother, Anna, is frantic with worry over him, but her husband Tobit says "Be still and stop worrying; he is well." She answers rather snippily and says "Be still and stop dec...
He Will Gather Us One by One
2021-10-14 18:00 Isaiah 27:12-13. These two verses come at the end of a chapter that begins with God promising "in that day" to use his great, strong sward to punish Leviathan, the fleeing, twisting serpent. So that i...
He Has Declared the End From the Beginning (or Don't Worry, Be Happy!)
2021-10-13 15:55 Isaiah 46:8-13. God is calling Israel (and us) to remember that he alone is God - there is no other, and none like him. He has declared "the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not y...
Maybe "Soon" is Sooner Than I Think!
2021-10-12 13:19 Ezekiel 12:26-28. The people hearing Ezekiel's prophecies are saying that they must apply to some time in the future, to things that are to happen in times of far off. So God says to Ezekiel - tel...
Let My (insert personal attachment here) Go!
2021-10-11 11:08 Psalm 135:5-12. The Lord is great, above all gods. His will is done in all things in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the deeps. He makes the clouds rise and the lightnings flash. He smote the...
Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner
2021-10-10 15:02 Luke 18:35-43. Luke's telling of the healing of the blind man on the road. As Jesus is passing by on the road with a multitude around him, a blind man hears the crowd and asks what it means. They ...
Respect for the Dead
2021-10-09 16:43 2 Samuel 21:10-14. Now that David is king, after Saul's death, the Gibeonites ask David for the lives of seven of Saul's sons in retribution for Saul's campaign against them. David hands o...