2024-10-29 06:34 Psalm 49:18-19. "Though, while [the wealthy man] lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself, he will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never...

2024-10-28 07:11 Wisdom 3:13. "For blessed is the barren woman who is undefiled, who has not entered into a sinful union; she will have fruit when God examines souls."   Children are a blessing, but one we must wait...

2024-10-27 09:08 Hosea 8:7 "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it."   When we try to take thin...

2024-10-25 08:59 Psalm 68:27 "There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulon, the princes of Naphtali."   As David describes the solemn procession of ...

2024-10-24 06:45 Jeremiah 23:29 "is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?"   God's Word is a living Word. It accomplishes things simply by being spoken. It is t...

2024-10-23 06:39 Sirach 11:11-12. "There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on, but is so much the more in want. There is another who is slow and needs help, who lacks strength and abounds and poverty; but the...

2024-10-22 06:20 Isaiah 5:6 "I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briars and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it."   This is part of the song of...

2024-10-20 11:03 Isaiah 41:9-10 "[Y]ou whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off '; fear not, for ...

2024-10-19 11:13 Job 4:21. "If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do not they die, and that without wisdom?"   This is Job's friend Eliphaz describing a vision he had in which a spirit appeared to him as...

2024-10-17 06:32 Ezra 2:27 "The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two."    Sometimes, like today, I get a verse that I am at a loss initially to do anything with! When I read this, I thought "What on earth am I...