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The Least of Us Leads

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 ...

Scripture First

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...

God Does Not Reward Busyness

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...

Distinguish Chastisement From Abandonment

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...

Be Not Afraid Nor Dismayed!

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 ...

Eliphaz Fails Discernment of Spirits 101

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...

Small and Concealed, But Still Essential

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...

Stay in the Current of God's Grace, Even When It's Rough

2024-10-16 06:25 Psalm 77:7-8. "Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?" I think we all feel this way at times. ...

Evil Catches Up

2024-10-15 07:45 1 Maccabees 2:1 "In those days Mattathias, the son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modein." Mattathias was the father of five sons, incl...

Everybody's Got Their Own Road to Damascus

2024-10-14 08:47 Romans 1:1-3. "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, the gospel concerning...