2025-08-14 06:41 Judith 8:8 "No one spoke ill of [Judith], for she feared God with great devotion."   It is not always true that one who is devoted to God is spared from ill speech against her. Sometimes, the holier...

2025-08-13 08:48 Psalm 18:29 "Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall."   David is rejoicing in the power of God that flows into us when we are doing His will. When we are with God, as...

2025-08-11 08:07 2 Kings 18:5 "[Hezekiah] trusted in the Lord the God of Israel; so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him."   It is very early, but ...

2025-08-09 12:21 Sirach 11:8 "Do not answer before you have heard, nor interrupt a speaker in the midst of his words."   The practical wisdom of Sirach really doesn't need to be expounded upon. I am grateful for...

2025-08-08 09:14 Isaiah 24:16 "From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, 'I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treach...

2025-08-06 10:19 Titus 3:10 "As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him".   Oh boy, there are so many factious people about these days! I'm not sure what ...

2025-08-05 10:04 Psalm 18:1 "To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and ...

2025-08-04 08:24 1 Maccabees 6:49 "[King Antiochus] made peace with the men of Bethzur, and they evacuated the city, because they had no provisions there to withstand a siege, since it was a sabbatical year for the la...

2025-08-03 09:30 1 Kings 22:51-52. "Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. He did what was evil in the...

2025-08-02 10:59 2 Timothy 1:1 "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus".    Paul calls himself an apostle of Christ by the will of God. It d...