“But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 September 23, 2024 We know it well. It is that physical and mental reaction to dangers real or imagined.
“Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.” Ecclessiastes 7:3 September 20, 2024 How is Ecclesiastes like a child at the beach? It shows us our sandcastles, the tide, and the waste. Solomon wrote this book with an intentional look at life in a fallen world, life without
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“The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet…” Isaiah 3:16 September 18, 2024 Over time every society in human history has its sad story of moral and spiritual decline. The latter half of the
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“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:30 September 16, 2024 Our culture would have women define themselves in terms of career, fashion, physical shape, size, weight, hair, sexuality, and more so now, a woman who has the right to do with her
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“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7 September 13, 2024 As a youth I have vivid memories of going to a scary movie. Yet when the really scary part was about to come up I went to the concession area to buy some candy. The
“The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.” Proverbs 14:8 September 11, 2024 I recently heard the story of a lady in her 60s who loved to hike. With the support of her husband she was determined to hike the Appalachian Trail. It went well for
“The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.” Proverbs 14:1 September 9, 2025 Wisdom tells us that a woman who builds her home is a better choice than one who destroys her home. We have a choice in life, the choice between wisdom (doing things God’s way)
“Does not wisdom call?…On heights beside the way…beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud.” Proverbs 8:1-3 September 6, 2024 In a very real sense we all have our moment of standing at a crossroad, a fork in the road, if you will. But unlike Yogi
“When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.” Proverbs 28:2 September 4, 2024 Our comparatively young nation has known many periods of social and political disorder from the very beginning, through the pre-Civil era of the 1850s and down to our upcoming
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’” Genesis 1:26 September 2, 2024
