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When to Channel Your Inner Serpent

2024-07-29 07:13 1 Maccabees 7:15. "And he spoke peaceful words to them and swore this oath to them 'We will not seek to injure you or your friends.'" This oath is a lie. The men speaking it will immediately, ...

What Does Idolatry Really Look Like?

2024-07-28 09:01 1 John 5:21 "Little children, keep yourself from idols." This is the last line of John's first letter, and what a good last line it is! Earlier, John says "We know that we are of God, and the ...

Call On the Right Friends in Times of High Emotion

2024-07-26 09:10 1 Maccabees 6:28. “The King was enraged when he heard this. He assembled all his friends, the commanders of his forces and those in authority.” Antiochus, known as Eupator, is the enraged king here. H...

We Place Our Trust in Men to Our Detriment

2024-07-25 05:45 Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the Lord: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.'" This is one of so many times in the Bible that God ...

He Will Save Us From Afar

2024-07-24 06:27 Jeremiah 30:10. "Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return...

Salvation Requires Relationship

2024-07-23 07:50 2 Chronicles 32:22. "So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies; and he gave them rest on every side....

God Will Provide an Unhindered Way

2024-07-22 09:41 Wisdom 19:7 "The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waters." Mose...

Wailing in the Vineyard

2024-07-21 10:08 Amos 5:17. "'[A]nd in all the vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you.' says the Lord." I think of vineyards as happy places - they're growing the gr...

Our Foundations Need to Be Exposed in Order to Be Repaired

2024-07-19 18:29 Micah 1:6. "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations." God has had it with ...

Beauty and the Bread

2024-07-18 06:25 Sirach 40:22. "The eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both." Verses 18-27 of the 40th chapter of Sirach contain a list of comparisons of good things, reminding u...