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It Happened to Solomon, Don't Think it Can't Happen to You
2022-07-04 14:31 1 Kings 9:3-9. God appears to Solomon a second time, this time when the Temple is completed. He tells Solomon that he has put his name, his eyes, and his heart inside the Temple for all of time. He al...
Consider How You Have Fared
2022-07-03 10:41 Haggai 1:1-6. The beginning of the book of Haggai, prophet to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and Joshua, the high priest. God tells Haggai to say to these men that the time has come to rebuild the hou...
Jesus Talks Divorce and Eunuchs
2022-07-01 18:05 Matthew 19:10-12. Immediately following Jesus' teaching that a man who divorces his wife and marries another, or a man who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery, the disciples say to him "If ...
Creation and Revelation
2022-06-30 07:02 Psalm 136:3-9. This psalm of thanksgiving is a litany of the wondrous acts of God followed, after each line, with "for his steadfast love endures forever." These verses recite how God alone does great...
The Power Given Living Creatures
2022-06-29 06:58 Ezekiel 1:10-12. Ezekiel is describing the four living creatures he saw appear with a cloud of fire. They each have four faces, and here he describes those. In the front they have the face of a man, o...
Giving In But Also Getting In the Last Word
2022-06-28 13:36 2 Samuel 2:24-28. Joab and Abishai, who are loyal to David, are pursuing Abner, who was loyal to Saul and believes Saul's son is the rightful king of Israel. Abner comes to the hill of Ammah and t...
When Wisdom is Derided
2022-06-27 06:06 Sirach 37:23-26. Sirach discusses some of the gifts of wisdom. "A wise man will instruct his own people, and the fruits of his understanding will be trustworthy. A wise man will have praise heaped upo...
Ignoring the Most Important Sin ... I Mean Sign
2022-06-26 10:50 Luke 11:29-32. As the crowd increased around Jesus, he said "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given except the sign of Jonah." The Son of Man will be a sign...
You Can't Entangle the Truth
2022-06-25 06:41 Matthew 22:15-22. After plotting a way to trap Jesus in his words, the Pharisees come to him and say "Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully ... Tell us, then ... Is i...
Awaiting Our Forever King
2022-06-24 09:37 1 Maccabees 1:11-15. In those days (the days after the death of Alexander the Great when Antiochus Epiphanes became king over the Jews), lawless men of Israel convinced many that they would be better ...