Joel 3:7-8 (New International Version 2011) 7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, […]
Entries from September 2011
Selling Your Sons and Daughters
September 25th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Joel · Old Testament
By This Everyone will Know
September 24th, 2011 · No Comments
John 13:35 (New International Version 2011) By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. Jesus is speaking here. People will know that we follow Him by our love for one another. How are we doing? How are we doing in America? If we judge by how well we […]
Tags: John · New Testament
Still a Great Answer
September 18th, 2011 · No Comments
This is an answer from several thousand years ago. It is still a great one: Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head. – Nehemiah 6:8 (New International Version 2011)
Tags: Nehemiah · Old Testament
Faith or Prudence or Something Else
September 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Ezra 8:21-22 (New International Version 2011) 21 There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. 22 I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect […]
Tags: Ezra · Old Testament
Boys and Girls Playing
September 11th, 2011 · No Comments
Zechariah 8: (New International Version 2011) 3 This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.” 4 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Once again men and […]
Tags: Old Testament · Zechariah
What Will Our Women Do?
September 10th, 2011 · No Comments
Esther 1:16-18 (New International Version 2011) 16 Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes. 17 For the queen’s conduct will become known to all […]
Tags: Esther · Old Testament
Hatred and a Prayer of Vengeance
September 4th, 2011 · No Comments
Psalm 137:8-9 (New English Translation) O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us! How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock! This cry was written after the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem. The conquerors […]
Tags: Old Testament · Psalms
Nothing is Too Hard
September 3rd, 2011 · No Comments
Jeremiah 32:17 (New English Translation) Oh LORD God, you did indeed make heaven and earth by your mighty power and great strength. Nothing is too hard for you! The key word from the above proclamation is nothing. Indeed, nothing is too hard for the LORD. There, I wrote it. That is a simple statement, not […]
Tags: Jeremiah · Old Testament