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God's Justice Often Doesn't Look Like We Think It Should
2022-04-25 10:41 2 Chronicles 21:11-17. Elijah the prophet writes a letter to Jehoram, the king of Judah. Jehoram has been leading the people astray and Edom and Libnah have revolted against his rule. He also has "mad...
God Will Protect Us in the Fiery Furnace
2022-04-24 11:10 Daniel 3:13-15. King Nebuchadnezzar is furious when he hears that faithful Jews Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego do not worship the idol that he has ordered all in Babylon to worship. He calls them bef...
The Day After the Battle
2022-04-22 09:21 Esther 9:16-19. After Queen Esther alerts her husband the king to his servant Hamea's plot to kill the Jews and pleads for them, the king delivers an edict to stop the plan. The Jews then rise up ...
The Cycle of Repentance and Salvation
2022-04-21 10:10 Psalm 6. David begins this psalm by acknowledging his sinfulness and asking for forgiveness and healing. He asks God to turn to him and save him, and he reminds God that in death there is no remembran...
When Your Family Turns Hostile
2022-04-20 10:26 1 Maccabees 6:18-27. The king's forces are fighting against the Israelites trying to "harm them and strengthen the Gentiles." So Judas Maccabeus assembles the people to fight back and they have gr...
What To Do and When To Do It
2022-04-19 06:55 Ezekiel 3:4-11. God tells Ezekiel to get up and go to the exiled House of Israel and tell them everything that God tells him. God points out that he is not sending Ezekiel to a foreign land where they...
Mourning an Only Son
2022-04-18 07:44 Amos 8:9-10. God is promising that he sees the injustice being done by those who "trample upon the needy" (Amons 8:4) and "buy the poor for silver" (Amos 8:6), and the day is coming when the land will...
Don't Play Gotcha
2022-04-17 10:03 Proverbs 24:28-29. "Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause .... Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.'"   There are ...
Choose Who You Follow Wisely
2022-04-16 10:59 Isaiah 47:14-15. God is speaking to his people as his bride who He has allowed to suffer the consequences of going astray. He tells them that the many counselors they have been pursuing and following ...
God Is, and That Is Good
2022-04-14 09:59 Job 26:1-7. Job answers God in thanks, saying God has helped him who has no power and counseled him who has no wisdom, giving him plentious knowledge. God has need of no help to do these things, it al...