07/19/2025 – “The Submission of the Believer” // “You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well for so I am”. (John 13:13)
“Our Lord never insists on having authority over us. He never says, ‘You will submit to me.’ No, He leaves us perfectly free to choose – so free, …
Read More07/18/2025 – “If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.” Peter Kreeft
Islam: “Where is the love?” . Who is their god? That would be Allah, a unipersonal god. You can have an all-powerful “unipersonal” god, at least in your own head …
Read More07/18/2025 – Day 362 – Song of Songs – Chapters 7 & 8 /Chapter 8 – “Longing for Her Beloved” Verses 6 & 7 – In the midst of a heated attraction between lovers (on the surface anyway) , why the two verse detour to ‘death’? / Post 1 of 2 – Post 2 tomorrow with our last reading on the book of Revelation). Stay tuned.
“Set me a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes …
Read More07/18/2025 – “The Mystery of Believing” // “He said, ‘Who are You, Lord?” (Acts 9:5).
“Through the miracle of redemption, Saul of Tarus was instantly changed from a strong-willed and forceful Pharisee into a humble and and devoted bondservant of the Lord Jesus.
There is nothing …
Read More07/17/2025 – “The Miracle of Belief” / “My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom …” (1 Corinthians 2:4).
“Paul was a scholar and an orator of the highest degree; he was not speaking here out of a deep sense of humility, but was saying that when he preached …
Read More07/17/2025 – Day 361 – Psalm – Chapters 149 & 150 / What verse(s) this go round (cycle 3) jump out at you?
The two previous cycle posts on this read are dated: “05/13/2021” and “03/23/2023” if you want to call them up via the search tool. A quicker way, although …
Read More07/17/2025 – BabylonBee: “Doctor reassures nervous patient this procedure will make him a truckload of money.” / comment attached
Thought I had forgotten about Babylon Bee posts? Well, I couldn’t let this one go by! Just saying: A good chuckle in the morning is “good medicine”. It is …
Read More07/17/2025 – “Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God” (1 Thessalonians 1:4)
Many persons want to know their election before they look to Christ, but they cannot learn it thus, it is only to be discovered by “looking unto Jesus.” If you …
Read More07/16/2025 – Evening devotional
“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour …
Read More07/16/2025 – Day 360 – Esther 1 – 10 // Chapter 9: 18 – 32 – “The Feast of Purim” – “.. that these day should be remembered and kept throughout every generation…” (Esther 9: 27,28)
I ran across this commentary sermon on Esther 1 – 10 from Skip Heitzig , Calvary Church through is series: “the Bible from 30,000 feet.” I doubt …
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