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Stop Looking at What We Can See
2024-09-05 09:17 2 Corinthians 4:18 "[B]ecause we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."   Pa...
Remembered as the Servant of the Lord
2024-09-04 06:45 Joshua 12:6 "Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-t...
Seek God With Nothing But Your Heart
2024-09-02 08:42 Hosea 5:6 "With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them."   God has "withdrawn" from the Jews because "their deeds did not permi...
Recognize Exile When You're In It
2024-08-31 09:48 Sirach 47:24 "Their sins became exceedingly many, so as to remove them from their land."   This is an echo of the reading from two days ago in Bending to Bad Leaders. Sirach, like the reading from B...
Bending to Bad Leaders
2024-08-30 09:02 Baruch 2:24 "But we did not obey thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon; and thou hast confirmed thy words, which thou didst speak by thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bo...
We've Turned Justice to Poison
2024-08-29 07:08 Amos 6:12 "Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood." God, through Amos, is berating Israel and "...
God Will Not Completely Destroy His Creation (Nor Allow Us To)
2024-08-28 08:46 Revelation 8:8-9 "The second angel blew his trumpet and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood, a third of the living creature...
Receiving Our Inheritance
2024-08-27 09:35 Joshua 16:4. "The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance." This chapter and the next go on to set out the boundaries of the land allotted to the Ephraimites and the tribe o...
How God Fulfills His Oaths
2024-08-26 07:53 Psalm 132:11. "The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: 'One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.'"   God's promises are often shown to be tru...
The Proper Asking Attitude
2024-08-25 08:56 Matthew 19:3 "And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking 'Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?'"   The Pharisees were always trying to test Jesus; trying to catch...