2024-06-17 08:59 1 Chronicles 2:7. "The sons of Carmi: Achar the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the matter of the devoted things".   I had no idea who Achar was (other than that he is a part of the listing ...

2024-06-15 10:07 Zechariah 6:14. "And the crown shall be in the temple of the Lord as a reminder to Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Josiah the son of Zephaniah." Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah were returning exiles who th...

2024-06-14 11:23 Jeremiah 43:12. "[Nebuchadrezzar] shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them and carry them away captive; and he shall clean the land of Egypt, as a shepherd clean...

2024-06-13 06:30 Isaiah 1:29 "For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted; and you shall blush for the gardens which you have chosen."   This is part of God's "opening statement" to Isaiah, in wh...

2024-06-12 09:38 Mark 14:69 "And the maid saw him, and began again to say to the bystanders 'This man is one of them.'"   Why do we feel the need to "report the news?" So many of us seem to want to be the "f...

2024-06-10 10:04 Jeremiah 12:1. "Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?"   These ar...

2024-06-09 10:29 Genesis 3:4. "But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not die.'"    This is not a randomly chosen verse this morning. I have been thinking a lot about today's first reading, Genesis...

2024-06-07 09:06 Jeremiah 51:22. "[W]ith you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the maiden." God is telling His people, ...

2024-06-06 06:40 Ezekiel 32:15. "When I make the land of Egypt desolate and when the land is stripped of all that fills it, when I smite all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the Lord."   Sometimes God ...

2024-06-05 06:23 Jeremiah 14:6. "The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage."   There is a line in those ubiquitous "We Believe" signs that ...