2024-07-11 09:35 Judith 11:13. "They have decided to consume the first fruits of the grain and the tithes of the wine and oil, which they had consecrated and set aside for the priests who minister in the presence of o...

2024-07-10 09:02 Psalm 125:5 "But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!"   Beware of those "crooked ways", they don't always look so crooked, at...

2024-07-09 07:24 2 Kings 6:5-6 "But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, 'Alas, my master! It was borrowed.' Then [Elisha] said, 'Where did it fall?' When he sh...

2024-07-08 09:44 Lamentations 3:39. "Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?"   Not only should we not complain when our sins are punished, but we should be grateful! If we were ne...

2024-07-06 10:59 Exodus 34:19. "All that opens the womb is mine, all your male cattle, the firstlings of cow and sheep."   Everything is God's! How ridiculous it is of me to think of the things in my life as bel...

2024-07-05 08:14 Jeremiah 47:3 "At the noise of the stamping of the hooves of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are ...

2024-07-03 06:15 Zechariah 9:14. "Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south."   This is part of a...

2024-07-02 07:13 Matthew 4:1 "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."   Jesus knew exactly where He was going, why He was going, and what He was doing when He went into t...

2024-07-01 08:33 Job 35:6. "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?" This is Job's friend Elihu speaking. He has come, with Job'...

2024-06-30 10:01 2 Maccabees 15:18. "Their concern for wives and children, and also for brethren and relatives, lay upon them less heavily, their greatest and first fear was for the consecrated sanctuary." These are t...