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Table Manners for Life

2024-08-12 09:32 Sirach 31:16 "Eat like a human being what is set before you, and do not chew quickly, lest you be hated." The Book of Sirach is said to be "instructions on proper behavior in all areas of life", a...

Breadcrumbs and Neon Signs

2024-08-11 10:32 Sirach 45:1. "From his descendants the Lord brought forth a man of mercy, who found favor in the sight of all flesh and was beloved by God and man, Moses whose memory is blessed." Sirach, of course, d...

We Have the Best Queen Mother!

2024-08-10 11:56 2 Kings 21:1-2 "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lo...

Frustration With Our Family

2024-08-09 05:24 1 Timothy 5:1-2. "Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers, older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, all in purity." Paul is wr...

Don't Pick at the Seam Between Good and Evil, Even a Little

2024-08-08 06:41 Luke 23:14. "You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him". So says Pilat...

God Over King

2024-08-07 09:09 1 Maccabees 2:34 "But they said, 'We will not come out, nor will we do what the king commands and so profane the sabbath day.'" We have a duty to obey lawful authority under the fourth co...

Getting in Trouble

2024-08-05 06:58 Proverbs 11:8. "The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead." Notice that the righteous "is delivered from trouble", that is, not by his own doing is he saved; yet the...

The Idol of Lust Demands the Sacrifice of Children

2024-08-04 11:25 Isaiah 57:5. "[Y]ou who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; who slay your children in the valley, under the cleft of the rocks." God, through Isaiah, is upbraiding His children, who...

Wanting God to Adapt to Our Ideas

2024-08-03 10:16 Matthew 19:3. "And the Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, 'Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?'" Matthew tells us the Pharisees asked this question as a t...

Maybe the Olympics Just Aren't for Us

2024-08-01 10:40 2 Maccabees 6:21 "Those who were in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside, because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring meat of his own providing, prope...