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07/08/2024 – “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live…” Deuteronomy 30:19


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The Monster and The Baby

Monday, July 8, 2024

In the late 19th century, a customs service worker in the Austrian Empire fell in love and married his cousin, Klara, who gave …

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07/07/2024 – Day 035 – Romans – Chapters 9 & 10 / “Preaching Evangelistic Sermons” Romans 10: 1-21 / May 9, 2011


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The moral relativism of our time makes it much harder to articulate certain categories which are fundamental to communicating the gospel, not least of all the issue of sin.

SolI Deo …

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07/07/2024 – Christian Post: “Iranian Christians haven’t stopped fighting, don’t forget them.”


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The church in Iran is one of the fastest growing churches in the world. I submit we don’t know much at all about the people of Iran. Common characteristics: …

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07/07/2024 – “All Efforts of Worth and Excellence are Difficult” / “Enter by the narrow gate …. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life… (Matthew 7: 13-14)


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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all efforts of wroth and excellence are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but …

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07/06/2024 – Day 034 – Isaiah – Chapters 23 – 28


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Last cycle’s post covers excerpts from every chapter, with commentary from various sources, so I recommend a quick perusal of that post dated 04/02/2022.

Covering new ground, I am being more …

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07/06/2024 – “Vision Becomes Reality” / “The parched ground shall become a pool …”


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“We always have a vision of something before it actually becomes real to us. When we realize that the vision is real, but is not yet real in us, …

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07/05/2024 – Day 033 – Job – Chapters 9 & 10


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Ok, sometimes it is good to start with lay-ups:

I submit that Job hits a resounding profound chord with this question!:

“For He (God Almighty!) is not a man, as …

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07/05/2024 – “One of God’s Great Don’ts” / “Do not fret – it only causes harm” (Psalm 37:8).


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“Fretting means getting ourselves ‘out of joint’ mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say, ‘Do not fret,’ but something very different to have such a nature that …

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07/04/2024 – Day 032 – Psalm – Chapters 13 & 14


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I am going to share commentary from two reknowned preachers:

Chapter 13 from Matthew Henry’s commentary, free by chapter, this version is the concise version as opposed to the complete (detailed) …

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07/04/2024 – Independence Day – Excerpt: (below) followed by entire article.


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Gustave de Beaumont, a contemporary of Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote in Marie ou L’Esclavage aux E’tas-Unis, 1835:

“I have seen a meeting of the Senate in Washington open with a prayer, and the anniversary festival of the …

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