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Fighting for the Prize
2022-11-10 07:07 Deuteronomy 2:26-30. Moses is recounting how he asked the king of Heshbon to allow him and the people to pass through that land on their way to the Jordan. Moses promised they would pass through only,...
The Bread of the Presence
2022-11-09 16:23 Luke 6:1-5. As Jesus and his disciples are passing through a grain field on the sabbath, the disciples pick and eat some of the grain. Some Pharisees see this and ask Jesus why his disciples are doing...
Fleeing Kings Are Never a Good Sign
2022-11-08 10:47 2 Kings 25:1-7. In the ninth year of the reign of King Zedekiah in Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, besieged Jerusalem. The entire city was surrounded for two years and the famine became so...
Fear is the Surrender of the Help of Reason
2022-11-07 09:32 Wisdom 17-18. This is not a random selection today, it was part of what Father Mike read today in The Bible in a Year podcast. When he read it, I remembered reading about this passage in The Christian...
Denial of Truth Leads to Corruption
2022-11-06 10:56 Romans 1:18-21, 28-32. Paul is describing the fate of "men who by their wickedness suppress the truth." What can be known of God is plain to them, since God reveals Himself in all things that He has m...
The Great Reward That Awaits Those Who Remain Faithful
2022-11-04 16:48 Revelation 4:7-13. Jesus tells John to write to the church in Philadelphia that He knows their works and He has set an open door before them which no one will be able to shut. They have but little pow...
Is It Sometimes OK to Mislead?
2022-11-03 10:22 1 Samuel 21:1-6. David is running away from Saul who is trying to kill him. He goes to Ahimelech the priest for bread for himself and his men. Ahimelech is suspicious at first, but David tells him tha...
Seek Wisdom, Even When It's Difficult
2022-11-02 08:59 Sirach 6:23-31. Sirach is speaking to his son about wisdom. He says to put your feet into her fetters and your neck into her collar, "do not fret under her bonds." Keep her ways with all your might. S...
Listening Versus Offering Advice
2022-11-01 11:10 Job 36:18-23. Part of Elihu's speech to Job. He warns Job not to let wrath entice him to scoffing, nor to let the greatness of the ransom turn him aside. Job's cry, he says, will not keep him ...
The Lost Son of Perdition
2022-10-31 09:32 John 17:11-12. Jesus is praying to the Father at the Last Supper. Here He says He is no longer in the world but His disciples are and will be after He goes to the Father. He asks the Father to keep th...