2024-11-24 08:41 1 Maccabees 8:11-12. "The remaining kingdoms and islands, as many as ever opposed them, they destroyed and enslaved. But with their friends and those who rely on them they have kept friendship."   T...

2024-11-23 09:18 Psalm 60:6 "God has spoken in his sanctuary: 'With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out of the Vale of Succoth.'"   David is singing this Psalm in defeat - "O God, thou hast r...

2024-11-21 06:59 2 Samuel 21:5-6. "They said to the king, 'The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel, let seven of his sons be given to us, s...

2024-11-20 09:34 2 Kings 21:23-24. "And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his house. But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon and ... made Josiah h...

2024-11-19 06:46 1 Timothy 1:6-7. "Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things ab...

2024-11-17 10:58 Hebrews 10:12-13. "But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, there to wait until his enemies should be made a stool for his feet."   ...

2024-11-16 11:13 1 Maccabees 15:11-12. "Antiochus pursued [Trypho], and he came in his flight to Dor, which is by the sea; for he knew that troubles had converged upon him, and his troops had deserted him."   As wit...

2024-11-15 09:31 Psalm 132:10 "For thy servant David's sake do not turn away the face of thy anointed one."   Psalm 132 is a reminder of what David has been through and done for God's sake, and also a remind...

2024-11-14 07:00 Psalm 49:20 "Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish."   When we live for money, luxury, comfort, personal glory, or the like, we become less and less like God and more and m...

2024-11-13 07:31 Deuteronomy 14:21 "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you or a people hol...