2022-09-20 10:20 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Paul instructs us about the status of those who have died, or, as he puts it "who are asleep." He says we should not grieve for them as others who have no hope. Since we belie...

2022-09-19 09:51 1 Chronicles 21:18-27. Because David has numbered the people of Israel not at the behest of God but out of a sense of pride and power, God has sent a pestilence among the people. David has pleaded wit...

2022-09-18 10:16 1 Samuel 27:5-7. David has gone over to the Philistines in an attempt to escape King Saul's pursuit of him and his men. Once settled there, he says to Achish, the son of the king of Gath, "If I ha...

2022-09-17 11:00 Ezekiel 8:1-4. Ezekiel tells us that in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as he sat in his house with the elders of Judah, another of his intense visions began. The ha...

2022-09-16 08:32 1 Peter 4:7-11. Writing to Christians in persecution, Peter says "The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers." He tells them to hold fast to unfailing love for ea...

2022-09-15 14:14 Tobit 10:1-7. Tobit and his wife Anna are getting anxious about the fact that their son Tobias is not yet returned from his journey. They do not know that he has found and married a wife while on his ...

2022-09-13 10:55 Nehemiah 4:10-14. The defensive wall of Jerusalem cannot be rebuilt quickly enough. "The strength of the burden-bearers is failing." Jews from the outer regions have come into Jerusalem warning of thi...

2022-09-12 09:01 Psalm 78:1-4. In a prelude to his psalm, the psalmists calls the people to listen and says "I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and know...

2022-09-11 11:17 Jeremiah 49:28-33. Jeremiah's prophesying against all of the lands surrounding Judah - they are all in for a fall. Here he speaks to Kedar and Hazor, which the king of Babylon has smote. The Lord ...

2022-09-10 10:55 1 Kings 10:1-3. On hearing of Solomon's wisdom, the Queen of Sheba comes to visit him with hard questions, a great retinue, camels, and very much gold and precious stones. "[A]nd when she came to ...