2025-01-04 12:37 Deuteronomy 23:12-13 "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it; and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and...

2025-01-03 05:26 Proverbs 3:3 "Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."   It is interesting the way this is phrased - "Let not loyalty ... for...

2025-01-02 07:35 Mark 10:17 "And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?'" This is the rich young man who ...

2025-01-01 10:08 Ezekiel 17:22 "Thus says the Lord: I, too, will pluck from the crest of the cedar the highest branch. From the top a tender shoot I will break off and transplant on a high, lofty mountain." This comes...

2024-12-29 10:46 Acts 13:16 "So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: 'Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.'"   These are Paul's first words and actions in the synagogue at Antioch of...

2024-12-27 09:32 Revelation 2:12 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.'"   This two-edged sword is referenced elsewhere, as well, see, for ex...

2024-12-24 10:04 Sirach 31:13 "Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been created more greedy than the eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face."   I never thought of my tears as being a sign of g...

2024-12-22 11:14 1 Samuel 2:1-10:   Hannah also prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord;     my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies,     because I rejoice in thy salvation.  “There i...

2024-12-21 09:55 Luke 10:29 "But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'"   The "he" here is a lawyer (ha!) who has come to Jesus to ask Him what he must do to inherit etern...

2024-12-19 11:13 2 Maccabees 12:38 "Then Judas assembled his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and they kept the Sabbath there." ...