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Lies About Life and Motherhood
2021-10-21 15:36 1 Kings 3:23-28. This is the famous judgment of Solomon when confronted with two women both claiming a child was theirs. These women lived in the same house and had given birth at the same time. One&#...
The Joy of Relief
2021-10-20 19:30 Judith 16:13-17. A beautiful part of Judith's song of praise to God after her victory for her people. Judith had put herself in a very dangerous situation, going alone into the enemy camp in order...
We're Not Supposed to Be Like Everyone Else
2021-10-19 15:26 Isaiah 63:15-19. Isaiah is pleading with God to look down from heaven and see that his people sorely need his zeal and his might; his yearning heart and his compassion. "For thou art our Father ... wh...
Put Down Those Raisin Cakes!
2021-10-18 08:09 Hosea 3. God tells Hosea to go and love a woman (his wife, in other translations) who is an adulteress, for that is how God loves the people of Israel even though they turn to other gods "and love cak...
The Beauty in Doing God's Work
2021-10-17 09:53 Exodus 38:17-20. Part of the description of the work of Bezalel who was overseeing the construction of the sanctuary at Moses' command. Here we learn that the bases of the pillars were bronze, wit...
Threshing the World
2021-10-16 17:54 Isaiah 41:14-16. God tells Israel, "you worm Jacob," not to worry or fear - he will help them. Their Redeemer is the Holy one of Israel, so they need not fear anything. He will make them a threshing s...
A Mother's Troubled Heart
2021-10-15 16:26 Tobit 10:6-7. Tobias' mother, Anna, is frantic with worry over him, but her husband Tobit says "Be still and stop worrying; he is well." She answers rather snippily and says "Be still and stop dec...
He Will Gather Us One by One
2021-10-14 18:00 Isaiah 27:12-13. These two verses come at the end of a chapter that begins with God promising "in that day" to use his great, strong sward to punish Leviathan, the fleeing, twisting serpent. So that i...
He Has Declared the End From the Beginning (or Don't Worry, Be Happy!)
2021-10-13 15:55 Isaiah 46:8-13. God is calling Israel (and us) to remember that he alone is God - there is no other, and none like him. He has declared "the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not y...
Maybe "Soon" is Sooner Than I Think!
2021-10-12 13:19 Ezekiel 12:26-28. The people hearing Ezekiel's prophecies are saying that they must apply to some time in the future, to things that are to happen in times of far off. So God says to Ezekiel - tel...