TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Samuel 17:38-50 TO CHEW ON: "All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s and he will give all of you into our hands." 1 Samuel 17:47 Though Samuel had anointed David as Israel’s next king, Saul continued to r...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Chronicles 28:4-12 TO CHEW ON: “And you my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; ...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 18:25-39 TO CHEW ON: “Answer me, O Lord, answer me so these people will know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” 1 Kings 18:37 “You go first,” Elijah told the Baal prophets. “Prepare your sacrifice. Put it on the wood. But don’t ligh...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 4: 1-12 Detail from "Cain and Abel Offering Their Sacrifices" by Gustave Doré TO CHEW ON: "Then the Lord said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: Numbers 16:1-7 TO CHEW ON: "Then he (Moses) said to Korah and all his followers: 'In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to him and who is holy and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.'” Numbers 16:5 The Israelites had ref...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read Genesis 11:1-9 TO CHEW ON: "Then they said, 'Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.'” Genesis 11:4 God was displeased with the peop...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Chronicles 12:1-14 TO CHEW ON: "Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed there was some good in Judah." 2 Chronicles 12:12 We left the story of Rehoboam a while back. He was the son of Solomon who said he would be ...
TODAY’S SPECIAL:1 Kings 18:16-24 TO CHEW ON: "Elijah went before the people and said, 'How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.' But the people said nothing." 1 Kings 18:21 Obadiah found Ahab and told him that Elijah had turned up....
TODAY’S SPECIAL: Luke 2: 21-38 TO CHEW ON: "It had been revealed to him (Simeon) by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Messiah ....She (Anna) never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying." Luke 2: 26 & 37When Jesus was still a tiny baby ...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Chronicles 15:25-16:3 TO CHEW ON: "So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps." 1 Chronicles 15:28 For three months the ark was in the home of Obed-Edom...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 18:13-27 TO CHEW ON: "Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said." Exodus 18:24 One day Moses got some important visitors. His father-in-law Jethro brought Moses’ wife and two sons to be with him. They had a wonderful family reunion and Moses told them the...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Samuel 9:1-12 TO CHEW ON: “'Don’t be afraid,' David said to him, 'for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.'” 2 Samuel 9:7 One day after ...