2024-04-02 09:22 Acts 1:10-11. As the disciples are gazing up after the ascended Jesus, two men in white robes appear standing by them. These men ask "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus w...

2024-04-01 09:19 (I am reposting my Acts of the Apostles series from a few years ago. The following was first published 12/12/2022)   Acts 1:1-9. After His resurrection, Jesus came back to His disciples and showed H...

2024-03-28 08:30 Amos 4:11. "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," says the Lord. (I am not sure why Amos...

2024-03-27 09:15 Isaiah 39:3-4. "Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, 'What did these men say? And when did they come to you?' Hezekiah said, 'They have come to me from a far cou...

2024-03-26 06:37 Jeremiah 6:9. "Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."   When we get impatient with God (or is that just me?:) for letting al...

2024-03-25 09:01 Wisdom 7:16. "For both we and our words are in his hand, as are all understanding and skill in crafts."   Solomon is extolling the virtues of wisdom, which God has granted to him - "I prayed and und...

2024-03-23 10:52 John 14:10, 24, 26, 28, 31. "The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works"; "the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's ...

2024-03-21 10:12 Jeremiah 46:11. "Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you."   In this prophecy against Egypt it is interesting th...

2024-03-20 11:06 Wisdom 7:25. "For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her."   Yesterday I wrote about the reality of...

2024-03-19 11:27 Matthew 26:74. "Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, 'I do not know the man.' And immediately the cock crowed."   This is the third time Peter denied Jesus, just as Jesus predict...