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Confidence in the Lord Can Scatter Enemies
2025-10-12 11:24 1 Chronicles 19:15 "And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab's brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem."   Joab and the "army ...
In Which Paul Tells Me to Loosen Up a Bit
2025-10-10 10:00 1 Timothy 5:23 "No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments."   What a funny verse in which to try and find deeper meaning, but I'll...
There Are No Snakes in Wisdom's Camp
2025-10-09 10:10 Sirach 14:26 "[He who pursues wisdom] will place his children under her shelter, and will camp under her boughs".    It's interesting that I have had Sirach, a Wisdom book, two days in a row, an...
Not Yet Time to Finish This Great Task
2025-10-08 09:30 Sirach 7:25 "Give a daughter in marriage; you will have finished a great task. But give her to a man of understanding."   This is good advice, but what do we do when our daughters are not particular...
His Very Heart
2025-10-07 10:22 Philemon 1:12 "I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart."   Paul is sending Onesimus, Philemon's former slave, back to Philemon as a brother in Christ. Paul has grown very close to On...
Auto-Penned Orders Can Be Revoked (And Should Be Defied)
2025-10-06 08:44 Esther 8:8 "And you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the kin...
Seeking Truly Wise Advisors
2025-10-05 11:29 Esther 1:13. "Then the king [asked] the wise men who knew the times - for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment". King Artaxerxes asked these wise men what w...
Where and How to Build Your Home (and Help Others Build Theirs)
2025-10-03 08:41 Luke 6:49 "But he who hears [Jesus' words] and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the...
His Words Are Life to Those Who Find Them
2025-10-01 09:36 Proverbs 4:20, 22 "My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings ... For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh."   We often ask God to incline His ear ...
God Tells It On the Mountain
2025-09-30 10:08 Matthew 5:1-2 "Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them". Jesus will then go on to give the Sermon on the ...