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We Are All Remembered by God
2025-01-13 06:35 2 Samuel 18:18. "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, 'I have no son to keep my name and remembrance'; he cal...
God's Paying Attention Always, to Everything
2025-01-11 11:54 Job 24:8, 12. "They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter. ... From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pay...
God Might Be Trying to Tell Us We're Revolting
2025-01-09 09:30 Jeremiah 11:9 "Again the Lord said to me, 'There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'"   Because of this revolt, because the people's "gods have become as ...
Lies, Liars, and Justice
2025-01-06 08:58 Deuteronomy 19:18-19 "[T]he judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; s...
A Few of My Favorite, and Least Favorite, Things
2025-01-05 11:12 Jeremiah 46:22 "She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force, and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees."    This is part of a prophecy against Egypt...
Laws of Love Can Get Uncomfortably Specific
2025-01-04 12:37 Deuteronomy 23:12-13 "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it; and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and...
Be Loyal to Loyalty
2025-01-03 05:26 Proverbs 3:3 "Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."   It is interesting the way this is phrased - "Let not loyalty ... for...
On Interruptions
2025-01-02 07:35 Mark 10:17 "And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?'" This is the rich young man who ...
A Successful Transplant
2025-01-01 10:08 Ezekiel 17:22 "Thus says the Lord: I, too, will pluck from the crest of the cedar the highest branch. From the top a tender shoot I will break off and transplant on a high, lofty mountain." This comes...
A Motion for Inclusion
2024-12-29 10:46 Acts 13:16 "So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: 'Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.'"   These are Paul's first words and actions in the synagogue at Antioch of...