2022-01-04 07:07 Sirach 51:1-6. A prayer of praise and thanks to God for being our protector and our helper. Sirach gives praise to God's name because God has delivered him from destruction; from liars; from those...

2022-01-03 11:14 Matthew 2:13-15. An angel appears to Joseph in a dream and tells him to get up, get Mary and Jesus, and flee to Egypt. They are to remain there until the angel tells them to return, "for Herod is abou...

2022-01-01 12:33 Esther 1 (11:2-11). Mordecai, a Jew in exile, and a powerful man in the court of the king, had a dream. In his dream there was great noise and confusion, thunder and earthquakes and tumult, and two dr...

2021-12-30 12:34 Jeremiah 37:6-10. God tells Jeremiah to tell the King of Judah "who sent you to inquire of me," that Pharaoh's army will retreat but that will not be a time of rest. The Chaldeans will come and ma...

2021-12-29 09:02 Judith 9:7-10. Part of Judith's prayer prior to her great endeavor (See Girl (with God) Power). Judith says the Assyrian army is mighty and glorious in its strength. They trust their arms, but do ...

2021-12-27 08:34 Jeremiah 12:1-4. Jeremiah acknowledges that he is complaining, and that God is always righteous, but he asks "Why does the way of the wicked prosper?" Why do the treacherous thrive? God plants them am...

2021-12-26 11:20 Ezra 10:16-17. The returned exiles have been told by Ezra to separate themselves from any foreign wives. To this end they have proposed making a list of those who married foreign women while in exile....

2021-12-24 10:40 2 Corinthians 2:5-11. Paul says if anyone causes him pain, that person really causes pain to all people. So that person suffers immensely for it - "For such a one this punishment by the majority is en...

2021-12-23 10:41 Galatians 4:15-16. Paul is writing to the Galatians who have turned away from the Gospel after his departure. He asks what has become of the satisfaction they felt when he was with them? While he was ...

2021-12-22 07:58 2 Chronicles 23:1-7. Jehoiada, the high priest, "took courage" and began planning how to get the rightful, six-year-old king, Joash, on the throne in place of Athaliah, the evil queen mother of the te...