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Forgiveness First, But Trust Only After Repentance
2025-11-05 06:27 2 Samuel 3:22 "Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace....
Mysterious Melchizedek
2025-11-03 08:24 Hebrews 7:9 “One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham”.   Abraham, the one chosen by God to be the father of our faith, gave Melchizedek a tithe of his ...
A Good Army Knows Whom It Serves
2025-11-01 11:13 1 Kings 16:16 "[A]nd the troops who were encamped heard it [and] said 'Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king'; therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Is...
Which Prophets Should We Trust?
2025-10-31 09:13 Jeremiah 27:14 "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you."   Imagine bei...
Rains Come in Their Season
2025-10-29 12:40 Leviticus 26:3-4 "If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field...
Look Out and Up in Suffering
2025-10-28 07:50 Job 14:21-22 "His sons come to honor and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."   Job is lamenti...
Honor Our Preachers and Teachers
2025-10-27 06:26 1 Timothy 5:17 "Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching."   Our parish just had its annual 40 Hours Devotion, and our ...
Missing the Idolatry for the Idols
2025-10-26 11:20 2 Kings 21:4 "And [Manasseh] built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'"   The altars Manaseh was building were altars to false god...
Trust with All Confidence
2025-10-24 10:08 2 Maccabees 15:7 "But Maccabees did not cease to trust with all confidence that he would get help from the Lord."   That's what we have to do, trust with all confidence that we will get help fro...
The Cause of Destruction
2025-10-23 10:06 Amos 5:9 "[It is the Lord] who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress."   So often in the Old Testament, and even in the New, especially in Rev...