2026-06-16 06:18 Luke 15:27 "And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.'"   The prodigal son's father is absolutel...

2026-06-15 08:38 1 Kings 3:21 "When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold it was dead, but when I looked at it closely in the morning, behold, it was not the child I had borne."   This woman, the mother of...

2026-06-14 08:28 Isaiah 45:9-10 "Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'...

2026-06-12 07:43 1 Kings 20:32; "So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said, 'Your servant Benhadad says, 'Pray, let me live.'" And he sa...

2026-06-10 07:01 2 Kings 11:5-8 "And he commanded them, 'This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the sabbath and guard the king’s house (another third being at the gate Su...

2026-06-08 09:21 2 Maccabees 7:8 "He replied to them in the language of his fathers, and said to them 'No.' Therefore he in turn underwent tortures as the first brother had done."   This is the second of the...

2026-06-05 08:40 Luke 11:38 "The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner."   I think I would have been a little surprised, too, to see Jesus not wash up before a meal. I doubt this wa...

2026-06-04 07:40 Psalm 51:18-19 "Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offer...

2026-06-03 06:35 Isaiah 50:7 "For the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame".   I often feel confounded and c...

2026-06-02 10:44 Psalm 24:7 "Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in."   If we want God to come in, we need to make room for Him. He will be with us even if...