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Backward Iterations of the Last Day

2024-08-19 07:09 Isaiah 34:8 "For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion." This chapter of Isaiah tells of the devastation God is going to allow to fall on all nations - "For t...

The Folly of Forced Worship

2024-08-17 10:30 Daniel 3:7. "Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshi...

Remembering the Point

2024-08-15 06:38 Mark 2:25-26. "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who are with him: how he entered the house of God ... and ate the bread of the Presence which it is ...

Beauty in the Belly of the Beast

2024-08-13 14:18 Daniel 13:1-2. "There was a man living in Babylon whose name was Joakim. And he took a wife named Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, a very beautiful woman." We all know the rest of this story - two Je...

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...