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When They Won't Believe You
2022-07-08 12:08 Mark 16:9-11. When Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told the others, who were mourning a...
Hammering God's Point and People Home
2022-07-07 06:20 Jeremiah 51:20-23. God says to Jeremiah "You are my hammer and weapon of war", as He prepares to bring down Babylon by stirring up the Medes against them. God goes on to describe all of the ways He wi...
Battles, Celebrations, and Rest
2022-07-06 08:28 1 Maccabees 7:47-49. After the defeat of Nicanor and his army, the victorious Jews seize the spoil and plunder and cut off the head and right hand of Nicanor (which he had stretched out against the Lo...
Hearing God and Following His Instructions
2022-07-05 20:24 Numbers 20:10-13. The people have been complaining about not having water in the desert, so God has told Moses and Aaron to bring the people before the rock at Meribah and tell it to bring forth its w...
It Happened to Solomon, Don't Think it Can't Happen to You
2022-07-04 14:31 1 Kings 9:3-9. God appears to Solomon a second time, this time when the Temple is completed. He tells Solomon that he has put his name, his eyes, and his heart inside the Temple for all of time. He al...
Consider How You Have Fared
2022-07-03 10:41 Haggai 1:1-6. The beginning of the book of Haggai, prophet to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and Joshua, the high priest. God tells Haggai to say to these men that the time has come to rebuild the hou...
Jesus Talks Divorce and Eunuchs
2022-07-01 18:05 Matthew 19:10-12. Immediately following Jesus' teaching that a man who divorces his wife and marries another, or a man who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery, the disciples say to him "If ...
Creation and Revelation
2022-06-30 07:02 Psalm 136:3-9. This psalm of thanksgiving is a litany of the wondrous acts of God followed, after each line, with "for his steadfast love endures forever." These verses recite how God alone does great...
The Power Given Living Creatures
2022-06-29 06:58 Ezekiel 1:10-12. Ezekiel is describing the four living creatures he saw appear with a cloud of fire. They each have four faces, and here he describes those. In the front they have the face of a man, o...
Giving In But Also Getting In the Last Word
2022-06-28 13:36 2 Samuel 2:24-28. Joab and Abishai, who are loyal to David, are pursuing Abner, who was loyal to Saul and believes Saul's son is the rightful king of Israel. Abner comes to the hill of Ammah and t...