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...

2025-05-26 07:52 1 Kings 22:43 "[Jehoshaphat] walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord; yet the high places were not taken away, and the peo...

2025-05-24 10:20 1 Timothy 4:7 "Have nothing to do with godless and silly myths. Train yourself in godliness".   There are plenty of godless and silly myths circulating these days. I am often shocked when I find peo...

2025-05-23 06:14 Amos 6:12-13. "Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood - you who rejoice in Lodebar, who say ...

2025-05-22 06:41 1 Corinthians 15:9 "For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."   We may not all have persecuted the Church as Paul did, but pretty mu...

2025-05-21 06:58 Jeremiah 5:17 "They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig tre...

2025-05-19 09:24 Proverbs 14:29 "He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly."   Strong emotions of any kind can cloud our ability to think rationally. We cannot evalu...

2025-05-18 11:42 Esther C: 14:5-7* "Ever since I was born I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers from among all their ancestors, for an ever...