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Looking Outward in Our Suffering
2025-09-26 09:07 Job 14:22 "He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."   Let's stop doing this! I am as guilty of it as anyone at times. When we are suffering, there is a great temp...
When We Can't Both Be Right
2025-09-25 06:55 Numbers 36:5 "And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, 'The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right.'"   Moses is settling a dispute that arose among ...
Suffering for the Sins of Our Fathers (and Mothers)
2025-09-24 10:18 Psalm 88:14-15. "O Lord, why doest thou cast me off? Why doest thou hide thy face from me? Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terror; I am helpless."   These pleas come from...
Wouldn't That Cloud Look Better Over There?
2025-09-22 10:01 Job 36:29 "Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?"   With this question Job's friend Elihu has kind of stumbled onto the point that God will eventual...
The Worm Is Slowly Turning
2025-09-21 10:08 1 Maccabees 7:47 "Then the Jews seized the spoils and the plunder, and they cut off Nicanor's head and the right hand which he so arrogantly stretched out, and brought them and displayed them just...
Caring if We Are Despised and Scorned
2025-09-20 10:59 2 Kings 19:21 "This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning [Sennacherib, king of Assyria]: 'She despises you, she scorns you - the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you - ...
Hearing "Come Up Hither!" Will Make It All Worth It
2025-09-19 09:26 Revelation 11:12 "Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, 'Come up hither! ' And in the sight of their foes they went up to heaven in a cloud.'"   The ones ascending to ...
Justice for Rebels
2025-09-18 10:19 Psalm 5:10 "Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against thee."   David is speaking of e...
The Upside Down Kingdom
2025-09-17 06:10 Acts 17:6 "And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, crying 'These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also&#...
The Strongholds of Liberalism Are Filled With Thorns
2025-09-15 08:34 Isaiah 34:13 "Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches." This is specifically addressed to Edom, but Isa...