2023-08-21 09:54 1 Kings 15:29-30. Baasha killed Nadab in Nadab's second year as king of Israel and took the throne. As soon as he killed Nadab, Baasha killed the entire house of Jeroboam (Nabad's kin). Not on...

2023-08-20 12:25 Sirach 34:4-5. "From an unclean thing, what will be made clean? And from something false, what will be true?"   This comes amid a warning from Sirach against believing in dreams, "Unless they are se...

2023-08-19 13:39 2 Timothy 1:1-2. This is the salutation from Paul's second letter to Timothy. Paul introduces himself as "an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which i...

2023-08-18 08:29 1 Maccabees 6:31-32. The enemy came and camped against Bethzur, and for many days fought and built engines of war, but the Jews kept going forth to burn the war machines and fight valiantly. Then Juda...

2023-08-16 09:12 Joshua 1:7. "Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have...

2023-08-15 12:32 2 Chronicles 1:4. At the beginning of Solomon's reign, we are reminded that David had brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem and had it placed in the tent he had pitched for it.   Just a w...

2023-08-13 09:09 Joshua 1:8. "The book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shal...

2023-08-12 10:39 Matthew 18:24-25. When a king who was settling his accounts began the reckoning, a man was brought to him who owed 10,000 talents. Since he could not pay, the king ordered him, his wife and children, ...

2023-08-11 09:49 The Prayer of Azariah in the Furnace 51-52 (Daniel 3, between 23 and 24). "Bless the Lord, lightnings and clouds, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever. Let the earth bless the Lord to make...

2023-08-10 07:08 Sirach 13:13. "Keep words to yourself and be very watchful, for you are walking around with your own downfall."   We tend to forget or overlook how powerful our words are. We spew out hurtful words ...