“Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. And when he was in...
“And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he...
“Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation’” Genesis 7: 1. The familiar story of Noah’s ark hardly...
“Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire...
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much” Luke 16: 10. I believe we can learn...
“But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged” 1 Corinthians 11: 31. If we don’t sin when we’re tempted, we are judging ourselves. And we will suffer for it. And if we...
“. . . One who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.” Isaiah 16: 5b. The passage is part of a prophecy Isaiah the prophet spoke about Jesus hundreds of years...
“And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor” Judges 4: 2. God’s original people were fickle. When life was good they would invariably turn to other gods. So God...
“Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf” Genesis 37: 7. Joseph’s Dream This passage...
“The people of Israel. . . inquired of God, ‘Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?’ And the Lord said, ‘Judah shall go up first’. . . And the men of...