2026-03-06 06:05 Job 28:19 "The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with [wisdom], nor can it be valued in pure gold."   Throughout the Bible the value of wisdom is stressed, it is lauded as one of the greatest gifts m...

2026-03-05 06:59 2 Corinthians 9:5 "So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a...

2026-03-04 10:28 Daniel 3:19-24, Song of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, verse 40 "Bless the Lord, sun and moon, sing praise to him and highly exalt him forever." This is a verse from the song the three Jews, Shadrac...

2026-03-03 10:49 Luke 6:33 "And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same."   This is one of the hardest parts of Christianity, I think, loving and doing go...

2026-03-02 09:17 2 Chronicles 13:8 "And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made yo...

2026-02-28 10:46 Sirach 29:14 "A good man will be surety for his neighbor, but a man who has lost his sense of shame will fail him."   Sirach could have juxtaposed a good man with a bad or wicked one, but he instead...

2026-02-27 08:29 Psalm 131:3 "O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and for evermore."   This ending line of a very short psalm is preceded by "O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too...

2026-02-26 09:47 1 Kings 9:4-5 "And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statut...

2026-02-25 08:55 Psalm 132:18 "His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown will shed its luster."   The crown we are striving for is lustrous. So much so that it will shed its light upon us, mak...

2026-02-24 06:49 Colossians 2:8 "See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ....