2021-10-11 11:08 Psalm 135:5-12. The Lord is great, above all gods. His will is done in all things in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the deeps. He makes the clouds rise and the lightnings flash. He smote the...

2021-10-10 15:02 Luke 18:35-43. Luke's telling of the healing of the blind man on the road. As Jesus is passing by on the road with a multitude around him, a blind man hears the crowd and asks what it means. They ...

2021-10-09 16:43 2 Samuel 21:10-14. Now that David is king, after Saul's death, the Gibeonites ask David for the lives of seven of Saul's sons in retribution for Saul's campaign against them. David hands o...

2021-10-08 19:16 Ezekiel 17:1-10. The Lord speaks to Israel in a riddle, an allegory. He tells Ezekiel to tell Israel of a majestic eagle who takes the top of a giant cedar and replants it in a land of trade and merch...

2021-10-07 14:50 Job 5:8-13. A recommendation to seek God in times of uncertainty or suffering. He "does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number." He raises up the lowly and "those who mourn are...

2021-10-06 12:43 Haggai 2:4-9. God tells his people to take courage, he is with them. He will not forget his promise. "My Spirit abides among you; fear not." He says in a little while he will once again shake the heav...

2021-10-05 16:59 Song of Solomon 5:1-8. More of God's love poem to us (I keep getting the Song of Solomon lately! I think he's reminding me how much he loves us!). Sometimes, in the Song of Solomon, I find it ...

2021-10-04 16:15 Psalm 22:1-5. David cries out "My God, my God, why hast thou thou forsaken me?" Why are you so far from me? Why do you not answer my groaning and my pain? I call out all day and all night, but I get n...

2021-10-03 18:05 Amos 3:1-11. God is warning his people (again!), this time through the prophet Amos. He says because of their special relationship with him (they are the one people he has known of all the families of...

2021-10-02 11:57 Jeremiah 29:1-9. Part of the letter Jeremiah sent to the exiles in Babylon. He tells them that God says they are to build houses there and live in them, get married, multiply there, and seek the welfa...