2024-07-31 07:45 2 Samuel 23:11-12. "And next to him was Shammah ... The Philistines gathered together at Lehi where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the men fled from the Philistines. But he took his s...

2024-07-30 10:08 Acts 5:17-18. "But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and filled with jealousy, they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison." (Spo...

2024-07-29 07:13 1 Maccabees 7:15. "And he spoke peaceful words to them and swore this oath to them 'We will not seek to injure you or your friends.'" This oath is a lie. The men speaking it will immediately, ...

2024-07-28 09:01 1 John 5:21 "Little children, keep yourself from idols."   This is the last line of John's first letter, and what a good last line it is! Earlier, John says "We know that we are of God, and the ...

2024-07-26 09:10 1 Maccabees 6:28. “The King was enraged when he heard this. He assembled all his friends, the commanders of his forces and those in authority.” Antiochus, known as Eupator, is the enraged king here. H...

2024-07-25 05:45 Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the Lord: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.'"   This is one of so many times in the Bible that God ...

2024-07-24 06:27 Jeremiah 30:10. "Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return...

2024-07-23 07:50 2 Chronicles 32:22. "So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies; and he gave them rest on every side....

2024-07-22 09:41 Wisdom 19:7 "The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waters."   Mose...

2024-07-21 10:08 Amos 5:17. "'[A]nd in all the vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you.' says the Lord."   I think of vineyards as happy places - they're growing the gr...