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This Evil Generation
2021-06-03 10:41 Matthew 12:38-45. Some scribes and Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign, but he tells them "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophe...
Take the Win
2021-06-02 09:55 1 Samuel 14:24-30. After battling the Philistines to the point where they all fled and Israel was delivered from them, King Saul is still vengeful and says "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is...
When Do We Reach Bottom?
2021-06-01 10:15 2 Maccabees 9:5-12. The punishment of Antiochus. Antiochus IV, the king of Syria, which controlled Israel at that time, continued his father's Hellenization of the Syrian empire, including Israel ...
Why So Much Suffering?
2021-05-31 11:31 Job 36:5-12. Part of Elihu's speech to Job. Elihu here says God does not despise anyone, and never withdraws his eyes from the righteous. They will, eventually, be seated with kings forever. God d...
Don't Get Caught in the Weeds
2021-05-30 11:19 1 Timothy 1:3-11. Paul is charging Timothy to remain in Ephesus and help certain people who are trying to teach the faith, but are being pulled astray by "myths and endless genealogies" and "vain disc...
All You Need is Love
2021-05-28 10:58 Mark 12:28-34. A scribe, seeing that Jesus answers questions well, asks Jesus which is the first commandment of all. Jesus replies that the first is that God is one, and to love him with all your hear...
The Point of No Return (and some quantum randomness)
2021-05-27 12:06 Ezekiel 24:1-14. More Ezekiel! I keep getting certain books! A friend, a mathematician, and I were just talking on Saturday about how there is no true randomness in the world - it is impossible to gen...
Impressing the Queen of Sheba
2021-05-26 10:07 2 Chronicles 9:1-9. The Queen of Sheba, having heard of Solomon's wisdom, visits him "to test him with hard questions." She brings with her "a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very...
Sometimes We Have No Choice (and that's a good thing!)
2021-05-25 16:56 Ezekiel 23:43-49. God is telling Ezekiel a story about two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, who have lived lewdly and are adulteresses. God makes it clear, at the beginning of this story, that Oholah is ...
Building and Planning Without God Gets Us Nowhere
2021-05-24 09:16 Psalm 127. "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. " Those who rise early and go to bed late, work...