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In Which We See the Poetic Justice of God's Plan
2025-05-04 10:43 2 Samuel 1:11 "Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him".*   An Amalekite has just approached David with the news that Saul and Jonathan are dead....
Don't Assume What God Is Doing
2025-05-02 08:54 1 Samuel 24:4 "And the men of David said to him, 'Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, 'Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good t...
His Justice Is Worth Waiting For
2025-04-30 17:54 Zephaniah 3:8 “‘Therefore wait for me,’ says the Lord, ‘for the day when I arise as witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the h...
Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Words Can Cause Real Trouble!
2025-04-28 08:39 Psalm 50:19-20. "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son."   Once we give ourselves a lit...
When and How to Bring Others' Misdeeds to God
2025-04-25 07:09 Matthew 18:31 "When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their Lord all that had taken place."   This is in this parable of the u...
Drawing on His Power
2025-04-24 06:07 Mark 5:30 "And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him, immediately turned about in the crowd, and said, 'Who touched my garment?'"   As we know, it was the hemorrhag...
Rebelling in the Wilderness
2025-04-23 09:45 Psalm 78:40 "How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!"   How often we still do! The wandering of the Jews in the desert for forty years should hit home wi...
The Word of God Will Never Fail
2025-04-22 11:05 Romans 9:6 "But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel".   The word of God will never fail. It cannot fail, because it is the Word...
An End Has Come, We Await a New Beginning
2025-04-21 09:57 Ezekiel 7:6 "An end has come, the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold it comes."   One end has certainly come today with the passing of Pope Francis.  I hope that it is not the end, bu...
The Ultimate One-Upmanship
2025-04-19 12:53 Matthew 22:34 "But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together."   This is toward the end of Matthew's Gospel when all the Jewish leaders are trying to trap J...