2025-08-16 10:11 1 John 2:26-27 "I write this to you about those who would deceive you; but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you, as his anointing ...

2025-08-15 09:55 Luke 18:2 "He said 'In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man'".   This is the judge whom the widow will, through persistence, eventually prevail upon to vi...

2025-08-14 06:41 Judith 8:8 "No one spoke ill of [Judith], for she feared God with great devotion."   It is not always true that one who is devoted to God is spared from ill speech against her. Sometimes, the holier...

2025-08-13 08:48 Psalm 18:29 "Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall."   David is rejoicing in the power of God that flows into us when we are doing His will. When we are with God, as...

2025-08-11 08:07 2 Kings 18:5 "[Hezekiah] trusted in the Lord the God of Israel; so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him."   It is very early, but ...

2025-08-09 12:21 Sirach 11:8 "Do not answer before you have heard, nor interrupt a speaker in the midst of his words."   The practical wisdom of Sirach really doesn't need to be expounded upon. I am grateful for...

2025-08-08 09:14 Isaiah 24:16 "From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, 'I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treach...

2025-08-06 10:19 Titus 3:10 "As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him".   Oh boy, there are so many factious people about these days! I'm not sure what ...

2025-08-05 10:04 Psalm 18:1 "To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and ...

2025-08-04 08:24 1 Maccabees 6:49 "[King Antiochus] made peace with the men of Bethzur, and they evacuated the city, because they had no provisions there to withstand a siege, since it was a sabbatical year for the la...