2025-06-07 13:14 Psalm 135:14 "For the Lord will vindicate his people, and have compassion on his servants."   We cannot vindicate ourselves. We are in the thick of it, we can't see the full story, and we often ...

2025-06-05 06:47 Zechariah 8:8 "[A]nd I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and righteousness."   We really do, in our hearts, all...

2025-06-04 08:59 Romans 1:8 "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world."   Lately, the promises throughout Scripture that all nations will come to k...

2025-06-03 10:01 Psalm 119:18 "Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."   A friend was telling me this morning about a recent homily she heard that really spoke to her. The priest was remindi...

2025-06-02 09:57 Deuteronomy 33:27 "The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you, and said Destroy." So says Moses toward the end of his bless...

2025-05-31 10:17 Acts 13:44 "The next sabbath almost the whole city gathered together to hear the word of God."   This is the "next sabbath" after Paul preached in the synagogue at Antioch for the first time. Paul&#...

2025-05-30 06:30 Jeremiah 47:4 "...[T]he day ... is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coast...

2025-05-29 08:59 1 Maccabees 6:3-4 "So [Antiochus] came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not because his plan became known to the men of the city and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and...

2025-05-28 09:32 2 Chronicles 20:35 "After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined with Ahaziah king of Israel who did wickedly." (Jehoshaphat again! God's trying to tell me something!)    Here we see Jehoshaphat ...

2025-05-27 10:23 John 15:18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you."   I never felt hated by anyone, much less by the world, until about five years ago. I used to think I had no enemi...