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Blessed be God in His Right Judgment
2025-11-21 09:51 2 Maccabees 1:17 "Blessed in every way be our God, who has brought judgment upon those who have behaved impiously." (This proclamation of praise follows a description of the slaughter of Antiochus and...
Hush My Mouth!
2025-11-20 07:42 Psalm 50:19 "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit".   Just this morning I was thinking about how my mouth can get me in trouble. There are so many warnings in the Bi...
God Wants to Adorn Us
2025-11-18 10:25 Song of Solomon 1:9, 11 "I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots ... We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver."   Despite the fact that the beloved is being compar...
A Time to Mourn
2025-11-17 09:59 Numbers 19:14 "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days."   Many of the laws laid down for the Jews...
We're So Vain (We Probably Think This Post is About Us)
2025-11-16 09:59 Ecclesiastes 1:2 "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity."   These are the words of one who has had the realization that yesterday's post discussed. When we see...
Wisdom Changes Everything
2025-11-15 08:58 Job 28:1 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine."   Job goes on to list many of the precious things of the world, and many of the accomplishments of man, then ask...
For Those Who Have Been Deceived
2025-11-14 08:56 Revelation 20:10 "[A]nd the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ...
Everything's Not Up to Me (or Joshua)
2025-11-12 10:04 Joshua 13:1 "Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the Lord said to him, 'You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.'" (I'm sure Joshu...
The Magician's Book
2025-11-10 08:58 John 13:1 "Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end....
We Withstand the Enemy Only in Unity
2025-11-09 10:18 1 Maccabees 6:3-4 "So [King Antiochus] came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city and they withstood him in battle. So he fl...