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The Walls Would Crumble Without Us
2025-05-08 06:44 Ezekiel 41:6 "And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so t...
The Right Leader at the Right Time
2025-05-07 09:57 2 Chronicles 21:17. "[A]nd [the Philistines] came up against Judah, and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wiv...
Beware the Hidden Coals
2025-05-05 08:47 Sirach 8:10. "Do not kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burned in his flaming fire."   This is good advice, obviously, but two things occur to me as reasons I don't always abide by it. Fi...
In Which We See the Poetic Justice of God's Plan
2025-05-04 10:43 2 Samuel 1:11 "Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him".*   An Amalekite has just approached David with the news that Saul and Jonathan are dead....
Don't Assume What God Is Doing
2025-05-02 08:54 1 Samuel 24:4 "And the men of David said to him, 'Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, 'Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good t...
His Justice Is Worth Waiting For
2025-04-30 17:54 Zephaniah 3:8 “‘Therefore wait for me,’ says the Lord, ‘for the day when I arise as witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the h...
Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Words Can Cause Real Trouble!
2025-04-28 08:39 Psalm 50:19-20. "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son."   Once we give ourselves a lit...
When and How to Bring Others' Misdeeds to God
2025-04-25 07:09 Matthew 18:31 "When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their Lord all that had taken place."   This is in this parable of the u...
Drawing on His Power
2025-04-24 06:07 Mark 5:30 "And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him, immediately turned about in the crowd, and said, 'Who touched my garment?'"   As we know, it was the hemorrhag...
Rebelling in the Wilderness
2025-04-23 09:45 Psalm 78:40 "How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!"   How often we still do! The wandering of the Jews in the desert for forty years should hit home wi...