2021-04-16 18:15 1 Samuel 2:1-11. Hannah's prayer of praise as she delivers Samuel, the son for whom she had prayed, to the house of the Lord. Hannah's prayer is so reminiscent of the Magnificat! She says her ...

2021-04-15 10:02 1 Thesselonians 5:1-11. Paul reminds us that we know the "day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night." That when people say "there is peace and security," sudden destruction will strike. But ...

2021-04-14 17:00 1 Timothy 5:9-16. Paul's instructions to Timothy in Ephesus on the role of widows in the newly forming church. Paul says widows of 60+ years of age who had only one husband may be "enrolled," as l...

2021-04-13 15:41 2 Samuel 22:21-31. Part of David's Song of Deliverance. David acknowledges that the Lord has rewarded him according to his righteousness. As long as he kept God's ways, he was recompensed. God...

2021-04-12 16:10 2 Maccabees 4:7-29. Hellenization took hold in Jerusalem after Jason took the high priesthood from his brother, Onias, by corruption. Onias had been a good and holy high priest, and so Jerusalem had b...

2021-04-11 11:33 Joshua 13:15-23 The verses in which Moses gives the Reubenites their inheritance. The territory of the Reubenites consists of all the cities of the tableland and all the kingdom of Shion, king of the ...

2021-04-10 10:00 Galatians 1:6-13 Paul is astonished that the Galatians are already allowing themselves to be led astray by a false gospel, a perversion of Christ's message. He tells them that even if he himself o...

2021-04-09 22:16 Judith 7:8-8:36 The Maccabees, Ammonites, and Assyrians have Jerusalem surrounded. They are cutting off their water supply and waiting for them to surrender, rather than attacking them over the protec...

2021-04-08 10:14 Deuteronomy 5:8-10 Part of the Ten Commandments - this one is: you shall not make any graven image of anything in Heaven, on Earth, or in the waters. You shall not bow down before them and serve them....

2021-04-07 20:38 I took a few days off (from blogging, not from journaling ) for Easter. Today's reading is Galatians 2:1-10. Paul records his return to Jerusalem after 14 years of preaching. He goes to "those who...