2024-06-09 10:29 Genesis 3:4. "But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not die.'"    This is not a randomly chosen verse this morning. I have been thinking a lot about today's first reading, Genesis...

2024-06-07 09:06 Jeremiah 51:22. "[W]ith you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the maiden." God is telling His people, ...

2024-06-06 06:40 Ezekiel 32:15. "When I make the land of Egypt desolate and when the land is stripped of all that fills it, when I smite all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the Lord."   Sometimes God ...

2024-06-05 06:23 Jeremiah 14:6. "The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage."   There is a line in those ubiquitous "We Believe" signs that ...

2024-06-04 06:05 Wisdom 9:4. "[G]ive me the wisdom that sits by thy throne, and do not reject me from among thy servants."   Solomon is asking for wisdom here, something he already asked for when he first took the t...

2024-06-03 09:05 Luke 8:52-53. "And all were weeping and bewailing her; but he said, 'Don't weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.' And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead."   I am coming to ...

2024-06-01 11:14 Psalm 112:7. "[The righteous man] is not afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord."   When I read this, I decided to use it to test myself. We have been getting an awful lot o...

2024-05-31 09:04 Isaiah 15:1. "An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night Moab is undone."   It can happen in a night. In the blink of an eye...

2024-05-30 07:13 Amos 5:21. "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies." God is talking to all the people of Israel, in both of the kingdoms, here. (Amos 3:1) He has simply had it....

2024-05-29 06:38 Deuteronomy 4:19. "And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the hosts of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, thi...