2025-01-05 11:12 Jeremiah 46:22 "She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force, and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees."    This is part of a prophecy against Egypt...

2025-01-04 12:37 Deuteronomy 23:12-13 "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it; and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and...

2025-01-03 05:26 Proverbs 3:3 "Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."   It is interesting the way this is phrased - "Let not loyalty ... for...

2025-01-02 07:35 Mark 10:17 "And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?'" This is the rich young man who ...

2025-01-01 10:08 Ezekiel 17:22 "Thus says the Lord: I, too, will pluck from the crest of the cedar the highest branch. From the top a tender shoot I will break off and transplant on a high, lofty mountain." This comes...

2024-12-29 10:46 Acts 13:16 "So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: 'Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.'"   These are Paul's first words and actions in the synagogue at Antioch of...

2024-12-27 09:32 Revelation 2:12 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.'"   This two-edged sword is referenced elsewhere, as well, see, for ex...

2024-12-24 10:04 Sirach 31:13 "Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been created more greedy than the eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face."   I never thought of my tears as being a sign of g...

2024-12-22 11:14 1 Samuel 2:1-10:   Hannah also prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord;     my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies,     because I rejoice in thy salvation.  “There i...

2024-12-21 09:55 Luke 10:29 "But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'"   The "he" here is a lawyer (ha!) who has come to Jesus to ask Him what he must do to inherit etern...