2021-07-25 12:57 Wisdom 10:9-12. Some of the great power of wisdom is described. Wisdom is usually portrayed as a woman - here she rescues those who serve her; she guides on straight paths a righteous man fleeing from...

2021-07-24 17:27 Acts 10:30-33. I have had this reading before, and blogged about it in Peter Models Our Mission. Here, Cornelius, the centurion who an angel told to send for Peter to come teach his growing Christian ...

2021-07-23 16:05 2 Maccabees 15:1-5. Nicanor plans to attack Judas Maccabee and his men on the Sabbath because he knows that they will be observing the day of rest. The Jews who have been forced to fight with Nicanor&...

2021-07-22 13:33 Amos 8:4-8. God is warning those who "trample upon the needy" and "bring the poor of the land to an end"; those who cannot wait for the Sabbath to be over, so they can start selling again; those who u...

2021-07-21 08:11 Philippians 3:2-11. Paul cautions us to "Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers, look out for those who would mutilate the flesh." Those who worship Jesus Christ in spirit are "the true ...

2021-07-20 18:41 Hebrews 7:1-10. Paul is describing how Melchizedek is a forerunner of Christ. We don't know a lot about Melchizedek, "He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days...

2021-07-19 16:09 Isaiah 45:22-23. This one is short, so here's the whole thing "Turn to me and be saved all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gon...

2021-07-18 14:07 Zephaniah 1:1-7. Another prophecy of doom for Judah! God says he will "utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," he will "cut off mankind" and the remnant of Ba'al, and the idolat...

2021-07-17 19:08 Lamentations 3:46-51. "All our enemies rail against us; panic and pitfall have come upon us... my eyes flow with rivers of tears... My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, until the Lord f...

2021-07-16 13:34 Ezekiel 27:10-21. Part of Ezekiel's lamentation over Tyre. These verses are extolling how great and rich and powerful Tyre has been. Every known land traded with them, men from Persia and Lud and ...