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The Great Reward That Awaits Those Who Remain Faithful
2022-11-04 16:48 Revelation 4:7-13. Jesus tells John to write to the church in Philadelphia that He knows their works and He has set an open door before them which no one will be able to shut. They have but little pow...
Is It Sometimes OK to Mislead?
2022-11-03 10:22 1 Samuel 21:1-6. David is running away from Saul who is trying to kill him. He goes to Ahimelech the priest for bread for himself and his men. Ahimelech is suspicious at first, but David tells him tha...
Seek Wisdom, Even When It's Difficult
2022-11-02 08:59 Sirach 6:23-31. Sirach is speaking to his son about wisdom. He says to put your feet into her fetters and your neck into her collar, "do not fret under her bonds." Keep her ways with all your might. S...
Listening Versus Offering Advice
2022-11-01 11:10 Job 36:18-23. Part of Elihu's speech to Job. He warns Job not to let wrath entice him to scoffing, nor to let the greatness of the ransom turn him aside. Job's cry, he says, will not keep him ...
The Lost Son of Perdition
2022-10-31 09:32 John 17:11-12. Jesus is praying to the Father at the Last Supper. Here He says He is no longer in the world but His disciples are and will be after He goes to the Father. He asks the Father to keep th...
I Am Hapless and Crushed (and I Bet You Are, Too)
2022-10-30 09:58 Psalm 10:10-13. The hapless is crushed by the wicked, he falls and sinks by the wicked's might. He thinks "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it." The psalmist asks God t...
Am I Failing in My Duty as a Friend?
2022-10-29 10:48 Sirach 37:1-8. Some people who say they are your friends are friends in name only, and what "a grief to the death when a companion and a friend turns to enmity." Some friends rejoice when you are happ...
When We Are Too Astonished to Act
2022-10-27 10:40 Mark 16:6-8. Mary Magdalene, Mary, Jesus' mother, and Salmone have gone to Jesus' tomb to annoint His body. They find a young man dressed in white sitting in the tomb and are amazed. He says t...
Moses Prefigured Jesus
2022-10-25 11:42 Numbers 12:1-8. Miriam and Aaron are grumbling about their brother Moses. They don't approve of him marrying a Cushite woman and they start to wonder whether it really is true that the Lord has sp...
Pride Will Be Our Downfall
2022-10-24 07:52 1 Kings 22:18-23. As Ahab and Jehoshaphat are trying to decide whether to join together to go to war again Syria, Ahab calls in all the prophets of Israel and asks them. They all say he will prevail i...