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Expectations Crowd Out Hope
2025-02-05 10:43 Lamentations 3:18. "So I say 'Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the Lord.'"   Jeremiah says this after a lengthy list of many ways he is suffering at God's hands. He has "seen af...
Lust Passes, Faith Abides
2025-02-04 06:10 1 John 2:17 "And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever."   In modern usage the word lust almost always refers to intense, disordered sexual desir...
Difficult and Dangerous New Beginnings
2025-02-02 09:23 2 Kings 15:13 "Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria."   Shallum only reigned one month because his rival Mena...
When We're Rejected By Our Own, There's Still Work to Be Done
2025-02-01 10:21 Acts 13:47 "For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, 'I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"   Paul speaks these ...
The Purpose of Chastisements
2025-01-31 09:23 Isaiah 26:16-17. "O Lord, in distress they sought thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near he...
Willing to Believe
2025-01-29 10:30 Mark 16:11 "But when [His disciples] heard that he was alive and had been seen by [Mary Magdalene], they would not believe it."   Mark does not say that the disciples "did not" believe, but that the...
Celebrating in Unity
2025-01-28 10:33 1 Kings 8:65 "So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days."    This seve...
Beware the Remnant of Evil
2025-01-26 09:04 Joshua 23:12-13 "For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours, know assuredly that the Lo...
Besieging Strongholds
2025-01-23 11:03 1 Maccabees 6:19 "So Judas decided to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them." The enemy had taken control of a citadel and was using that strategic position to attack and harm Isr...
We Are Human Males or Females in the Womb
2025-01-22 10:02 Luke 2:23 "([A]s it is written in the law of the Lord, "'Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord.)'" This is in parentheses because Luke is explaining to his readers wh...