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God's Rules Often Create Muscle Memory
2022-07-16 10:33 Deuteronomy 14:9-20. Some rules about what the Israelites could and could not eat. Here, God covers things of the sea, birds, and winged insects. Of the sea, the Jews may eat anything with fins and sc...
Protecting the Remnant
2022-07-15 14:52 Isaiah 7:21-25. God is describing to Isaiah the the suffering that is about to befall Judah and Israel due to their sinfullness. In the midst of describing it, however, He says "In that day a man will...
Filling the Emptiness
2022-07-13 10:17 Micah 6:12-16. God cries out to his city "your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies." Therefore he has begun to smite them, they will become desolate because of their sins. They ...
Sirach's Steps for Discernment and Counsel
2022-07-12 12:28 Sirach 37:12-15. Stay with a godly man who you know to be a keeper of the commandments, whose soul is in accordance with your soul, and who will sorrow with you when you fail. Establish also the couns...
Don't Let Evil Get In Your Head
2022-07-11 07:24 2 Chronicles 32:13-14. The king of Assyria has sent his servants to Jerusalem to try to convince the people of Judah to surrender to him. He asks them "Do you not know what I and my fathers have done ...
Things Go Well at the Well
2022-07-09 07:03 John 4:16-26. Jesus tells the Samaritan woman at the well to call her husband. When she says she has no husband, Jesus says she speaks truly, for she has had five husbands and the one she is with now ...
When They Won't Believe You
2022-07-08 12:08 Mark 16:9-11. When Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told the others, who were mourning a...
Hammering God's Point and People Home
2022-07-07 06:20 Jeremiah 51:20-23. God says to Jeremiah "You are my hammer and weapon of war", as He prepares to bring down Babylon by stirring up the Medes against them. God goes on to describe all of the ways He wi...
Battles, Celebrations, and Rest
2022-07-06 08:28 1 Maccabees 7:47-49. After the defeat of Nicanor and his army, the victorious Jews seize the spoil and plunder and cut off the head and right hand of Nicanor (which he had stretched out against the Lo...
Hearing God and Following His Instructions
2022-07-05 20:24 Numbers 20:10-13. The people have been complaining about not having water in the desert, so God has told Moses and Aaron to bring the people before the rock at Meribah and tell it to bring forth its w...