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We Need Leaders, We Don't Have to Like Them
2023-12-21 06:18 Sirach 10:20. "Among brothers their leader is worthy of honor, and those who fear the Lord are worthy of honor in his eyes."   We cannot all be leaders, but we can all fear the Lord and be worthy of...
Something Much Bigger is Going On
2023-12-20 05:54 Job 15:9. "What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?" This is Eliphaz, Job's friend, speaking to Job in the midst of Job's suffering. Job's frie...
Dumber Than An Ox, Or Too Smart For Our Own Good?
2023-12-18 09:04 Isaiah 1:3. "The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people does not understand."   God has given us so much, and yet we often do not understand that!...
Am I Expecting Miracles Not Meant For Me?
2023-12-16 10:03 1 Kings 17:23-24. "And Elijah took the child ... and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said 'See, your son lives.' And the woman said to Elijah, 'Now I know that you are a man of God...
When All Alone, Turn to God
2023-12-15 08:58 1 Timothy 5:5. "She who is a real widow, and is left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day." By a "real widow", Paul means one who has no children...
What, Me Worry?
2023-12-13 10:17 John 10:18. "No one takes [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father."   Jesus ...
Whose Ways Are Unjust, Now?
2023-12-12 10:08 Ezekiel 33:17. "Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just'; when it is their own way that is not just."   This is the passage in which God is saying He has appointed Ezekiel as a...
Opening Our Eyes to See the Poor
2023-12-11 09:34 Proverbs 28:37. "He who gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse."   The Lord has made it very clear that he has a preferential love for the poor, and that we...
God Does Not Delay
2023-12-10 13:39 Luke 17:28-30. "Likewise as it was in the days of Lot - they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and brimstone rained fr...
With Friends Like These...
2023-12-09 06:26 Luke 23:12 "And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other." Pilate had sent Jesus to Herod, hoping to get this problem off ...