2026-09-24 07:44 Sirach 45:14 "His sacrifices shall be wholly burned twice a day continuously."   Sirach is speaking of Aaron, exalted by God through Moses as the first high priest (Sirach 45:6). God stressed to Mos...

2026-09-23 08:59 Matthew 19:23-24 "And Jesus said to his disciples, 'Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the...

2026-09-21 08:07 Hosea 6:11-7:1 "For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people, when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of ...

2026-09-20 06:58 Judith 8:9-10. "When Judith heard the wicked words spoken by the people against the ruler, because they were faint for lack of water, and when she heard all that Uzziah said to them, and how he promis...

2026-09-19 05:30 Isaiah 5:1 "Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill."   Twice Isaiah refers to God as "my beloved" here. It is such an intima...

2026-09-16 09:34 Isaiah 38:20 "The Lord will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life at the house of the Lord."   I love how prevalent music is in the Bible, and how it is used to ...

2026-09-14 06:11 1 John 5:20-21. "And we know that the Son of God has come and given us understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal ...

2026-09-13 12:21 Luke 11:7-8 "[A]nd he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything'"? I tell you, though he will ...

2026-09-11 05:25 2 John 1:4 "I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father."   John is writing to a particular "elect lady and her children" (2 Jo...

2026-09-10 09:57 Proverbs 24:19-20 "Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked; for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out."   In our culture of victimizatio...