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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

2025-10-22 10:55 2 Samuel 22:32 "For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock except our God?"   I have called various people "my rock" at different times in my life. In those times, I was so grateful to have the...

2025-10-21 10:53 Deuteronomy 12:17-18. "You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, or any of your votive offerings which ...

2025-10-20 08:50 2 Samuel 21:6 "[L]et seven of [Saul's] sons be given to us, so that we may hang them up before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord."    Saul had tried to wipe out the Gibeonites even ...