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Be Not Afraid Nor Dismayed!

2024-10-20 11:03 Isaiah 41:9-10 "[Y]ou whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off '; fear not, for ...

Eliphaz Fails Discernment of Spirits 101

2024-10-19 11:13 Job 4:21. "If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do not they die, and that without wisdom?" This is Job's friend Eliphaz describing a vision he had in which a spirit appeared to him as...

Small and Concealed, But Still Essential

2024-10-17 06:32 Ezra 2:27 "The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two." Sometimes, like today, I get a verse that I am at a loss initially to do anything with! When I read this, I thought "What on earth am I...

Stay in the Current of God's Grace, Even When It's Rough

2024-10-16 06:25 Psalm 77:7-8. "Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?" I think we all feel this way at times. ...

Evil Catches Up

2024-10-15 07:45 1 Maccabees 2:1 "In those days Mattathias, the son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modein." Mattathias was the father of five sons, incl...

Everybody's Got Their Own Road to Damascus

2024-10-14 08:47 Romans 1:1-3. "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, the gospel concerning...

A Question of Trust

2024-10-13 10:29 Ezra 8:26-27 "I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels worth a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold, twenty bowls of gold worth a thousand da...

There's Always an Afterward

2024-10-11 08:40 Jeremiah 46:25-26. "The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: 'Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who...

The Signs of the Times

2024-10-10 07:10 Isaiah 34:4. "All the host of Heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree." The langu...

Following God Through the Flames

2024-10-09 09:49 Azariah's Prayer, 18-19 (contained in Daniel 3:19-25). "And now with all our heart we follow thee, we fear thee and seek thy face. Do not put us to shame, but deal with us in thy forbearance and i...