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Table of contents for the Archived Daily Devotionals:

2021

 

FEBRUARY

February 20 Ephesians 2:19 – 

February 21 Psalm 91:1 – 

February 22 2 Corinthians 12:9a -

February 23 Proverbs 3:23a –

February 24 John 14:2 –

February 25 Psalm 91:10a -

February 26 Job 22:21 –

February 27 Romans 8:28a – 

February 28 Isaiah 40:31b –

 

MARCH

March 01 Psalm 37:28a –

March 02 Isaiah 43:1b –

March 03 John 6:35ab –

March 04 Psalm 37:5 –

March 05 John 10:9 –

March 06 Psalm 27:5c –

March 07 Hebrews 8:10c –

March 08 Psalm 145:14a –

March 09 2 Corinthians 13:11bc –

March 10 Galatians 6:9 –

March 11 Psalm 37:9b –

March 12 1 John 3:22ab –

March 13 Isaiah 40:29 –

March 14 Luke 21:33 –

March 15 Psalm 27:5c –

March 16 Lamentations 3:22b-23a –

  • Daily Humor:  What's the first reference to kidney stones in the Bible? A. Judges 3:26, states Ehud passed the stones. 

March 17 Job 41:22b –

  • Daily Humor: "Why doesn't Jesus have a beard like the rest of us?" John asked. "Because," Peter replied, "Jesus shaves." –

  • Story of St. Patrick

March 18 Philippians 4:7 –

  • Daily Humor: Why did Jesus turn water into wine? Because he was King of the Juice. –

  • Story of cosmonaut Leonov

March 19 - Song of Solomon 8:7ab –

  • Daily Humor:  How do we know Jesus was a sharp dresser? He was "found 'in fashion' as a man."  Philippians 2:8 –

  • Story of Napoleon Bonaparte

March 20 - Psalm 18:17a –

  • Daily Humor: Why couldn't Jonah trust the ocean? Because he knew there was something fishy about it. –

  • Story of beginning of concentration camps in WWII Germany

March 21 - Acts 2:17a –

  • Daily Humor: Did you know there was pole vaulting in the Bible? Yeah, Jesus cleared the temple. –

  • Story of Great New Orleans Fire of 17988

March 22 - Mark 8:35b –

  • Daily Humor:  What were Lot's last words to his wife? Is someone following us?  (That's a bad one, I know, but it's still humorous.) –

  • Story of Powhatan Confederacy of 1622

March 23 - Matthew 6:14 –

  • Daily Humor:  Who is the first Comedian on Earth? God!  (Gen. 21:6 - and Sarah said, 'God had made me to laugh...') –

  • Story of Patrick Henry and Story of Battle of Okinawa

March 24 - Isaiah 58:9a –

  • Daily humor: What is the hardest chapter in the Bible? 'For-Micah'.... –

  • Story of Study of Tuberculosis –

  • New content (answer will be given the following day):  A daily trivia: What animal rebuked Balaam when he saw the Angel of the Lord?

March 25 - Matthew 4:6b –

  • Daily Humor: What was Isaac's response to Rebekah when she mentioned she served dinner to his brother Edom? Did he eat 'em? –

  • Story of Fort Stedman –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: An ass (Numbers 22:28).... back in Biblical times it was considered a miracle when an ass spoke, today it is commonplace in Washington, DC.

  • Todays Trivia: Who was the only person mentioned as being buried in coffin?

March 26 - Malachi 4:2a –

  • Daily Humor: Whose coleslaw did Pharaoh dislike? Moses's law. –

  • Story of Egypt and Israel 1979 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Joseph (Gen. 50:26)

  • Todays trivia: What was Neheiah's profession?

March 27 - Psalm 127:2b –

  • Daily Humor: What do you get when you mix Holy Water with Exlax? A religious movement. –

  • Story of excommunication of Venice, 1309 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia:  A. Cup Bearer (Neh 13:13)

  • Todays Trivia: How did God punish David for his national pride?

March 28 - Proverbs 11:30a –

  • Daily Humor: Whose the greatest babysitter in the Bible? David, he rocked Goliath into a very deep sleep. –

  • Story of Coercive Acts, 1774 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Plague (2 Sam 24:1)

  • Todays trivia: Which of the gospels was written by a doctor?

March 29 - Zechariah 2:10b –

  • Daily Humor: What kind of drink did Moses drink that never ran out? Infini-tea. –

  • Story of Rationing during WWI and WWII –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia:  C. Luke (Col 4:14)

  • Todays trivia: Who killed John the Baptist?

March 30 - Numbers 14:21 –

  • Daily Humor: Who was one of the characters named in the early Christian carols? Round-John-Virgin –

  • Story of Purchasing Alaska –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Herod Antipas (Mark 6:14)

  • Todays trivia: Don't let anyone think less of you because you are______.

March 31 - Proverbs 18:24b –

  • Daily Humor: What kind of meat did Adam refuse to eat? Spare ribs. –

  • Story of 2004 Fallujah Blackwater –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. Young (1 Tim 4:12)

  • Todays trivia: Jacob's wife Rachel died while giving birth to whom?

 

APRIL

April 01 - 1 Peter 3:12a –

  • Daily Humor: Why were the Israelites scared to follow Moses to the mount? They thought they were going to Mount Cyanide, not Mount Sinai. –

  • Story of April Fools Day –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Benjamin (Gen 35:16-18)

  • Todays trivia: How many times does the word 'eternity' appear in the KJV Bible?

April 02 - Revelation 3:12a –

  • Daily Humor: Which Herodian king was the most fruity? Herod the Grape. –

  • Story of Good Friday –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. 1 (Is 57:15)

  • Todays trivia: What did Jacob do right after he was told Joseph was dead?

April 03 - John 4:14a –

  • Daily Humor: Why did James and John's mother tell them to stop burping? She was afraid they would be called Sons of Thunder. –

  • Story of Pony Express –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Tore his clothes (Gen 37:34)

  • Todays trivia: Abraham was instructed to circumcise boys at what age?

April 04 - Isaiah 43:2a –

  • Daily humor: Where does the Bible refer to a motorcycle? David's Triumph could be heard throughout the land. –

  • Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. 8 days (Gen 17:12)

  • Todays trivia: Who is known as being Israel's most wicked king?

April 05 - 1 Corinthians 3:21b, 23 –

  • Some things to think about with the covid-19 –

  • Daily Humor: Who had the greatest case of constipation in the BIble? Revelation tells us Satan will be bound up for a thousand years. –

  • Story of The Chilean Revolution –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Ahab (1 Kings 16:30)

  • Todays trivia: Which of the twelve tribes were divided into half-tribes?

April 06 - Jeremiah 7:23b –

  • Daily humor: Where did Noah keep the bees on the ark? In the 'Ark-hives'...(archives) –

  • Story of Just 100 years ago –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Joseph (Joshua 14:4)

  • Todays trivia: Which book begins with: In my first book I told you...

April 07 - Psalm 46:1 –

  • Daily humor: What is the best verse for a nursery? 1 Cor 15:51 - "...We shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed." –

  • Story of 1906 Mt. Vesuvius - 

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Acts (1:1)

  • Todays trivia: In Song of Solomon, where does it say leopards live?

April 08 - Deuteronomy 33:27a –

  • Daily humor: What kind of plants didn't Noah want on the Ark? Leeks –

  • Story of Stabilization Act of 1942 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. Mountains (Song of Solomon 4:8)

  • Todays trivia: Where was Jesus born?

April 09 - James 4:10 –

  • Daily humor: Why didn't God make Eve first? Because He didn't want advice on how to do it. –

  • Story of President Andrew Johnson –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Bethlehem (Luke 2:4-6)

  • Todays trivia: What animal panting for water illustrated a desire for God?

April 10 - Psalm 25:9a –

  • Experiencing God Exercises –

  • Daily humor: What is the best verse for a kitchen? "For everything there is a season." –

  • Story of The Ottoman Empire –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Deer (Psalm 42:1)

  • Todays trivia: Who called himself the 'apostle to the Gentiles?'

April 11 - Genesis 28:15a –

  • Daily humor: An elderly woman had just returned home from an evening Church service when she realized there was an intruder in her home.  Seeing that he was in the act of robbing her home of its valuables, the lady yelled "Stop! Acts 2:28!". Hearing her, the burglar stopped dead in his tracks and stood motionless. The woman calmly called the police and explained what was going on. As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar, "Why did you just stand there? All the lady did was yell a Bible verse at you." "Bible verse?" said the burglar, "She said she had an ax and two 38's!" –

  • Story of Holocaust Liberation –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Paul (Romans 11:13)

  • Todays trivia: Who is the oldest person mentioned in the Bible?

April 12 - Isaiah 26:3a –

  • Story of Third Commandment –

  • Daily humor: Why couldn't Jonah trust the ocean? Because he knew there was something fishy about it. –

  • Story of Space Shuttle Columbia –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Methuselah (Gen. 5:27)

  • Todays trivia: Whose biography is the most developed in the Old Testament?

April 13 - Psalm 16:11a –

  • Story of lying –

  • Daily humor: There were these three professionals sitting around talking about the oldest profession.  The Doctor says, "Well, the Bible says that God took a rib out of Adam to make woman.  Since that clearly required surgery, then the oldest profession is surely medicine."  The Engineer shakes his head and replies, "No, no. The Bible also says that God created the world out of void and chaos.  To do that, God must surely have been an engineer.  Therefore, Engineering is the oldest profession."  The Politician smiles smugly and leans discreetly forward.  "Ah," he says, "but who do you think created the Chaos?" –

  • Story of Right to die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian compared with Murphy, Newsom, Whitmer, Wolf, and Cuomo –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. David

  • Todays trivia: Nahum predicts the downfall of which neighbors?

April 14 - Hebrews 13:5c –

  • Part 1 of Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth –

  • Daily humor: What is prayer? Wireless access to God with no roaming fee. –

  • Story of Abraham Lincoln assassination –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Assyria (Nahum 3:8)

  • Todays trivia: How many commandments did God give Moses at Mount Sinai?

April 15 - Psalm 147:3 –

  • Story of importance of not having evil friends –

  • Daily humor: Seven days without prayer..... makes one weak! –

  • Story of The Titanic –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. 10 (Exodus 20)

  • Todays trivia: Who was the first Christian martyr?

April 16 - James 4:8a –

  • Story of importance of ‘why’ –

  • Daily humor: Wrinkled with burdens? Come to Church for a faith lift! –

  • Story of Fertilizer Plant Explosion of 1947 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Stephen (Acts 7:59-60)

  • Todays trivia: What did the people of Lystra call Barnabas? –

  • New content; Word of the day…Word: wend

April 17 - Matthew 11:28 –

  • Story of the First Amendment to the US Constitution –

  • Daily humor: He who farts in Church.... sits in own pew. –

  • Story of Dutch-Scilly war –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Jupiter (Acts 14:12)

  • Todays trivia: The Lord instructed a king not to have many of which animal? –

  • Word: purloin

April 18 - Isaiah 53:12d –

  • Story of the Second Amendment –

  • Daily humor: God, make me the person.... my dog thinks I am. –

  • Story of 1906 San Francisco earthquake –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Horse (Deuteronomy 17:16)

  • Todays trivia: Where is this: Hear O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: -

  • Word: chlamys

April 19 - Deuteronomy 7:9 –

  • Story of irrational covid fear –

  • Daily Humor: Sin burn is prevented by... Son screen –

  • Story of Oklahoma City bombing –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Deuteronomy 6:4 (Deuteronomy 6:4)

  • Todays trivia: Which prophet was teased by a group of boys for being bald? –

  • Word: forfend

April 20 - Psalm 146:8c –

  • Story of forgiveness –

  • Daily humor: Where was Solomon's temple located? On the side of his head. –

  • Story of Ludlow Massacre 1914 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. Elisha (2 Kings 2:23)

  • Todays trivia: What are the first five books of the Bible traditionally called? –

  • Word: adulate

April 21 - Matthew 6:6b –

  • Story of responsibility –

  • Daily humor: T.G.I.F. - acronym... Thank God I'm Forgiven –

  • Story of the Greek Revolution of 1967 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. Book of Moses

  • Todays trivia: Samson used what jawbone to kill 1,000 Philistines? –

  • Word: touchstone

April 22 - Micah 7:8c –

  • Story of Fear –

  • Daily humor: What is the best vitamin for a Christian? B1 –

  • Story of Emancipation of the German Jew 1871 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Donkey (Judges 15:15)

  • Todays trivia: Who was Hagar? –

  • Word: ebullient

April 23 - Genesis 21:22b –

  • Story of 10 phrases of words of wisdom –

  • Daily humor: The Church is a gift from God... Some assembly required. –

  • Story of The Boston Latin School of 1635 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. All of these (Genesis 16)

  • Todays trivia: Which book is this from: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. –

  • Word: bogart

April 24 - Mark 10:27b –

  • Story of Judging –

  • Daily humor: We are souler powered. . . by the Son. –

  • Story of explosion in Bangladesh of 2013 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. Exodus (Exodus 20:3)

  • Todays trivia: What was the first plague to strike the Egyptians? –

  • Word: impresario

April 25 - Psalm 17:7b –

  • Story of not worrying of climate collapse –

  • Daily humor: What is the best weather forecast? God reigns and Son shines. –

  • Story of Suez Canal –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. Blood in the Nile (Exodus 7:21)

  • Todays trivia: Jesus refers to Herod Antipas as which animal in Luke? –

  • Word: clandestine

April 26 - Psalm 145:18a –

  • Story of Creation vs Evolution Pt 1 –

  • Daily humor: What's missing: Ch_ _ch? U R – Story of Chernobyl 1986 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Fox (Luke 13:32)

  • Todays trivia: Which book begins with: There was a man in the land of Uz... –

  • Word: epicure

April 27 - Exodus 15:2a –

  • Part 2 of agnostics (atheists) –

  • Daily humor: What is life without Christ like? An unsharpened pencil - no point. –

  • Story of Tiananmen Square –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. Job (Job 1:1)

  • Todays trivia: The second coming of Jesus is like . . . –

  • Word: rococo

April 28 - Matthew 7:8 –

  • Part 3 of agnostics (atheists) –

  • Daily humor: Can't sleep and counting sheep? Talk to the Shepherd! –

  • Story of Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. All of these (Matthew 24:3-33)

  • Todays trivia: Which biblical patriarch impregnated both of his daughters? –

  • Word: herald

April 29 - Psalm 121:3b –

  • Story of Idle Hands –

  • Daily humor: God is like laundry soap... He gets the stains out that others left behind. –

  • Story of UK People’s Budget of 1910 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Lot (Genesis 19:36)

  • Todays trivia: What country was Barnabas from? –

  • Word: amicable

April 30 - Proverbs 28:20a –

  • Part 1 of the problems of the Nearly Inspired Version of the Holy Bible –

  • Daily humor: God didn't create anything without a purpose. . . but mosquitos come close! –

  • Story of George Washington, First President of USA –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Cyprus

  • Todays trivia: In the eighth plague, this animal covered the ground. –

  • Word: dross

 

MAY

May 01 - Psalm 62:6bc –

  • Story of ‘equality’ –

  • Daily humor: Why pay for GPS? Jesus gives direction for free. –

  • Story of Socialism and Cuba 1961 –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Locusts (Exodus 10:4)

  • Todays trivia: God blesses those who mourn, for they will be . . . –

  • Word: fustian

May 02 - Proverbs 19:23ab –

  • Part 1 of false doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church –

  • Daily humor: Be an organ donor . . . Give your heart to Jesus. –

  • Story of Christopher Columbus –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. Comforted (Matthew 5:4)

  • Todays trivia: How many tribes formed the northern kingdom of Israel? –

  • Word: abjure

May 03 - Psalm 145:16 –

  • Part 2 of the problems of the Nearly Inspired Version –

  • Daily humor: Looking for a lifeguard? Ours walks on water. –

  • Story of Margaret Thatcher –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: C. 10 (1 Kings 12)

  • Todays trivia: How many judges are mentioned in the Bible? –

  • Word: conciliatory

May 04 - Revelation 21:4a –

  • Story of importance of personal property –

  • Daily humor: God wants spiritual fruits . . .not religious nuts. –

  • Story of Civil Rights –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: A. 15 (Judges, 1 Samuel)

  • Todays trivia: Who did King Saul chase around the wilderness to try to kill? –

  • Word: succumb

May 05 - Ephesians 2:8a –

  • Story of the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church –

  • Daily humor: How can you stay in good standing? With a lot of kneeling. –

  • Story of Cinco de Mayo –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. David (1 Samuel 23)

  • Todays trivia: What did Jacob gain when he tricked his father, Isaac? –

  • Word: sprightly

May 06 - Philippians 4:19 –

  • Story of why the King James Version is the only perfectly preserved Word of God –

  • Daily humor: Give God what's right . . .Not what's left. –

  • Story of Engineering Marvel the ‘Chunnel’ –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: B. A blessing (Genesis 27:22-30)

  • Todays trivia: What was Abraham's native country? –

  • Word: deep-six

May 07 - Hebrews 11:6c –

  • Part 3 of the problems of the NIV –

  • Daily humor: Forbidden fruit . . .creates many jams. –

  • Story of Joan of Arc –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Ur (Genesis 154:7)

  • Todays trivia: What was Jesus' profession? –

  • Word: archipelago

May 08 - Isaiah 30:15c –

  • More false doctrine from the Roman Catholic Church –

  • Daily humor: What is God's way of saying lighten up? By sending a sunrise. –

  • Story of Germany’s unconditional surrender –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Carpenter (Mark 6:3, Matthew 13:55)

  • Todays trivia: This man's name means beloved. –

  • Word: frugal

May 09 - John 16:15a –

  • Story of the First Amendment –

  • Daily humor: Looking for a Church? Try one that's prayer-conditioned. –

  • Story of Mother’s Day origins –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. David (David means beloved in Hebrew)

  • Todays trivia: Which book begins with: This is a revelation from Jesus Christ... –

  • Word: paean

May 10 - Philippians 4:13 –

  • Story of why badges are BAD –

  • Daily humor: Waiting for a sign to to Church? This is it! –

  • Story of Nathaniel Bacon –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Revelation (Revelation 1:1)

  • Todays trivia: How many languages has the Bible been translated into? –

  • Word: shrive

May 11 - Proverbs 11:25 –

  • Problem of ‘high taxes’ being anti-Biblical –

  • Daily humor: What could dust on your Bible lead to? Dirt in your life. –

  • Story of espionage trial of Ellsberg and Russo –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. 1100

  • Todays trivia: Where did Elijah contest Jezebel's 450 prophets of Baal? –

  • Word: importunate

May 12 - Psalm 27:14b –

  • Story of climate change fear mongering –

  • Daily humor: Download your worries . . .and get online with God. –

  • Story of More problems of the climate change hysteria –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18-19)

  • Todays trivia: Israel's leaders are criticized as which mute animal in Isaiah? –

  • Word: veracity

May 13 - John 10:9a –

  • More problems of liberality –

  • Daily humor: To be almost saved . . .Is to be totally lost. –

  • Story of hunger strike of Chinese students –

  • Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Dogs (Isaiah 56:10)

  • Todays trivia: Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes? –

  • Word: exhilarate

May 14 - Psalm 126:6 –

  • Problems with Critical Race Theory –

  • Daily humor: ATM found here . . . Atonement, Truth, and Mercy. –

  • Story of the Papacy of middle 10th century –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Solomon (Not directly identified but the Bible implies Solomon)

  • Today's trivia: The New Testament is made up of how many books? –

  • Word: blithesome

May 15 - 1 Peter 1:25a –

  • Story of unconditional love –

  • Daily humor: God grades on the cross . . . not on the curve. –

  • Story of 1948 Arab-Israeli war and Story of Ellen Church –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 27

  • Today's trivia: Where does the phrase "Woe is me' come from? –

  • Word: heinous

May 16 - Psalm 126:5 –

  • Part 4 of NIV problems –

  • Daily humor: Exercise daily . . . Walk with the Lord. –

  • Story of Democrat discrimination and the impeachment of Billy ‘rapist’ Clinton –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Isaiah (Isaiah 6:5)

  • Today's trivia: What is the Hebrew name for the first five books of the Bible? –

  • Word: magnum opus

May 17 - Ecclesiastes 11:1 –

  • Story of ‘gun control’ in the USA –

  • Daily humor: Join us . . .We have a prophet sharing plan! –

  • Story of problems with ‘transgenderism’ and its mental disability component –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Torah (5 books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy)

  • Today's trivia: Where did John write Revelation? –

  • Word: divers

May 18 - Matthew 25:23b –

  • Story of the RCC starting Islam –

  • Daily humor: What has saved our souls but is frowned upon? Body piercing. –

  • Story of the Siege of Acre of 1291 –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Patmos (Revelation 1:9)

  • Today's trivia: How many of Paul's letters to the Corinthians are included in the Bible? –

  • Word: peruse

May 19 - John 14:18a –

  • Story of Tom Selleck and Rosie Odonell –

  • Daily humor: Believe in UFO's? Try Unity, Forgiveness, and Outreach. –

  • Story of the agenda of BLM and antifa –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 2 (1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians)

  • Today's trivia: Which book comes after 2 Thessalonians? –

  • Word: rictus

May 20 - Zechariah 8:13b –

  • Problems with the PCR test of this covid –

  • Daily humor: Why read the Bible? It's user-friendly and you can get free tech support on Sunday's. –

  • Story of 1940 Auschwitz –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. 1 Timothy

  • Today's trivia: How many books of the Bible are named after women? –

  • Word: copious

May 21 - Matthew 24:35 –

  • Story of covid vaccine –

  • Daily humor: Blessed are the flexible . . .for they shall not be bent out of shape. –

  • Story of 1936 Japanese prostitute Sada Abe –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 2

  • Today's trivia: When Peter denied Jesus for a third time, what animal made a noise? –

  • Word: altruism

May 22 - Psalm 6:9 –

  • A few more problems of the NIV –

  • Daily humor: God's gifts are like butter . . .spread them. –

  • Story of 1840 violence in the Halls of Congress –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Rooster (Matthew 26:34)

  • Today's trivia: Who said the following: 'The harvest is great, but the workers are few.' –

  • Word: heliacal

May 23 - 1 Corinthians 15:58b –

  • Daily humor: Life is a puzzle . . .Look to Christ for the missing peace. –

  • Story of the Chinese ‘Great Leap Forward’ –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Jesus (Luke 10:2)

  • Today's trivia: In all your ways ________ him, and he will make your paths straight. –

  • Word: gadfly

May 24 - Psalm 121:2 –

  • Daily humor: Try Church on Sunday's . . . They are better than Dairy Queen's Sundays. –

  • Story on another problem of evolution –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Acknowledge (Proverbs 5:6)

  • Today's trivia: Which of the following is not a book in the Bible? –

  • Word: chouse

May 25 - Proverbs 1:33 –

  • Story on importance of correct history –

  • Daily humor: WalMart . . .It's not the only saving place. –

  • Story of President JFK speech of 1961 –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: I was in a hurry yesterday and didn't grasp the question in it's entirety so I accidentally had 2 correct answers, sorry for any confusion. C. Exhortations AND E. 1 Opinions

  • Today's trivia: What did God use to create Eve? –

  • Word: bumbershoot

May 26 - Matthew 28:20b –

  • Roman Catholic Church false doctrine of Mary –

  • Daily humor: God is rich . . . Because He saves. –

  • Story of the beginning of the DJIA –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Adam's rib (Genesis 2:21)

  • Today's trivia: What represents God's promise to never again destroy all living creatures? –

  • Word: desolate

May 27 - Isaiah 30:19cd –

  • Debunking some Biblical myths and misinterpretations –

  • Daily humor: What car make did the Apostles drive? Honda . . . because they were all in one Accord. –

  • Story of a Battle from the War of 1812 –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Rainbow (Genesis 9:11-13)

  • Today's trivia: Who impressed Jesus with his faith when this man asked him to heal his servant? –

  • Word: flotilla

May 28 - Job 14:15a –

  • HIPAA rules pertaining to the covid vaccine –

  • Daily humor: Choosy moms . . .Choose Jesus. –

  • Story of some horrendous acts of the US Government upon its citizens –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. A Roman Officer (Matthew 8:5-13)

  • Today's trivia: Where is this: Thou shalt not commit adultery? –

  • Word: lymphatic

May 29 - 1 John 2:17b –

  • Daily humor: A family altar . . .can alter a family. –

  • Story of slavery in Canada –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Exodus 20:14 (Exodus 20:14)

  • Today's trivia: What animal did Jesus ride into Jerusalem? –

  • Word: inroad

May 30 - Psalm 34:17a –

  • Story of US President Andrew Jackson –

  • Daily humor: If students wrote the Bible, the Ten Commandments would . . .actually be only five, double spaced and in large font. –

  • Story of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. A young donkey (Matthew 21:2-7)

  • Today's trivia: What colored robe did the Roman soldiers put on Jesus to mock him? –

  • Word: nettle

May 31 - Isaiah 43:5a –

  • Story of beginning of Memorial Day –

  • Daily humor: JesusCare . . .Good for all! –

  • Story of the first and longest continuously running Memorial Day Parade –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Red (Matthew 27:27-31)

  • Today's trivia: How much faith did Jesus say you needed to move a mountain? –

  • Word: elegiac

 

JUNE

June 01 - Revelation 2:10d –

  • Story of Marijuana

  • Daily humor: How is fudge like church?  Sweet with a few nuts.

  • Story of Mussolini and fascism

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. A mustard seed (Matthew 17:20)

  • Today's trivia: What holiday was occurring during the Last Supper?

  • Word: anfractuous

June 02 - Matthew 5:5 –

  • Story of mass murderers

  • Daily humor: Who has the best vision? Those who are Cross-eyed.

  • Story of PT Barnum

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Passover

  • Today's trivia: How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish?

  • Word: colleague

June 03 - Psalm 23:1 –

  • More problems with the NIV

  • Daily humor: Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet Him.

  • Story of ‘Sovereign Citizens’

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 3 days (Jonah 1:17)

  • Today's trivia: Which son did God ask Abraham to sacrifice but later provided a ram?

  • Word: peach

June 04 - Psalm 119:165a –

  • Story of ‘Original Autographs’

  • Daily humor: Patience . . .a virtue heavy in wait.

  • Story of Slavery and Jewish persecution.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Isaac

  • Today's trivia: Which famous apostle learned the trade of tent making?

  • Word: rigmarole

June 05 - Matthew 5:6 –

  • Story of Covid vaccines and dangers

  • Daily humor: Pessimists . . . they need a kick in the can'ts.

  • Story of the Gold Standard

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Paul (Acts 18:2-3)

  • Today's trivia: The Lord challenges Job to try to catch what animal to display His greatness?

  • Word: didactic

June 06 - Isaiah 45:2a –

  • Story of PLO – Israel war of 1982

  • ​Daily humor: Why wouldn't Pharaoh let the Hebrews go? He was in 'de nile.

  • Story of D-Day

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Leviathan

  • Today's trivia: Which of the Gospels is written by a tax collector?

  • Word: glean

June 07 - 1 John 2:25 –

  • Story of Obedience

  • Daily humor: What excuse did Adam give to his children as to why he no longer lived in Eden? Your mother ate us out of house and home.

  • Story of Gandhi

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Matthew (Matthew 9:9-13)

  • Today's trivia: How many books are in the Old Testament?

  • Word: solipsism

June 08 - Matthew 5:18 –

  • Story from John 14:23-29

  • Daily humor: What is "Give Give Give Give & Get Get Get Get"? Forgive and Forget.

  • Story of USS Liberty

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. 39

  • Today's trivia: Which book is not written by Paul?

  • Word: bumptious

June 09 - Revelation 21:7a –

  • Letter to teachers warning of the dangers of teaching of evolution

  • Daily humor: Autumn leaves . . .  Jesus doesn't.

  • Story of Mormon fortitude

  • ​Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Revelation

  • Today's trivia: What language was the New Testament originally written in?

  • Word: enjoin

June 10 - Isaiah 65:24a –

  • Story of Governor Blanton of Tennessee

  • Daily humor: What animal couldn't Noah trust? Cheetah

  • Story of the origin of mustard

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Greek

  • Today's trivia: How many Psalms are in the Book of Psalms?

  • Word: majuscule

​

June 11 - John 14:14 –

  • True story of slave trade

  • Daily humor: Gardening for God . . . brings peas of mind.

  • Story of Jews of Algeria, before, during and after WWII

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. 150

  • Today's trivia: The book of Nehemiah is about rebuilding the walls of what city?

  • Word: poignant

June 12 - Matthew 19:26b –

  • Story of covid nonsense

  • Daily humor: Kindness is difficult to give away . . . because it keeps coming back.

  • Story of Berlin wall

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Jerusalem

  • Today's trivia: Who authored the book of Revelation?

  • Word: virtuoso

June 13 - John 6:37 –

  • Story of ‘Is the Bible true’?

  • Daily humor: Nothing ruins the truth . . . like stretching it.

  • Story of US Postal Service and Story of Germany invasion of Paris

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. John

  • Today's trivia: Which book in the New Testament is the most recent?

  • Word: titanic

June 14 - Exodus 33:14 –

  • Story of ‘indulgences’ of the Catholic churh

  • Daily humor: What is a salesman's favorite Scripture passage? The Great Commission.

  • Story of Chuck Barris and The Gong Show

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Revelation.

  • Today's trivia: How many people are featured in the Bible?

  • Word: deride

June 15 - John 15:9a –

  • Scripture comparisons

  • Daily humor: Why did the hawk sit on the church's steeple? It was a bird of pray.

  • Story of the Magna Carta

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. 2930

  • Today's trivia: Why did Moses break the 10 Commandments?

  • Word: fealty

June 16 - Psalm 25:9b –

  • Story of ‘races’

  • Daily humor: Church bulletin blooper . . . Potluck supper tonight, prayer and medication to follow.

  • Story of George Stinney, Jr.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. He was angry.

  • Today's trivia: God tells Abraham that his offspring will be as numerous as what?

  • Word: jocund

June 17 - Psalm 29:11b –

  • Story of ‘hyphens’

  • Daily humor: Where is the first tennis match mentioned in the Bible? When Joseph served in Pharaoh's court.

  • Story of Statue of Liberty and Story of polio vaccine

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Stars and sand

  • Today's trivia: Whose spirit did Saul consult through a medium?

  • Word: harry

June 18 - Deuteronomy 33:25b –

  • Last of Scripture comparisons

  • Daily humor: How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it!

  • Story of the War of 1812

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Samuel

  • Today's trivia: What kind of horn was sounded that caused the downfall of Jericho?

  • Word: calumny

June 19 - Psalm 27:5a –

  • Story of judging properly

  • Daily humor: What did Moses do at the Red Sea? He had a staff meeting.

  • Story of the postal service beginnings of 1461

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Both of these

  • Today's trivia: What did Jesus sweat when he was praying before he was crucfied?

  • Word: abrupt

June 20 - Psalm 121:4 –

  • Story of Lizzy Borden

  • Daily humor: What did Adam say on the day before Christmas? It's Christmas, Eve!

  • Story of Alaska purchase

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Blood (Luke 22:44)

  • Today's trivia: Which holiday was forgotten but was brought back by King Hezekiah?

  • Word: progeny

June 21 - John 8:12b –

  • Story of Father’s Day

  • Daily humor: What is a single guys favorite book of the Bible? The book of Numbers.

  • Story of F.W. Woolworth

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia:

  • A. Passover (2 Chronicles 30)

  • Today's trivia: What is the Greek name for the first five books of the Bible?

  • Word: inveigle

June 22 - 2 Peter 2:9a –

  • Story of purgatory

  • Daily humor: Why did the passengers throw Jonah off the boat? They smelled something fishy.

  • Story of Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Pentateuch

  • Today's trivia: How much time passed between the Old Testament and the New Testament?

  • Word: miasma

June 23 - Ephesians 5:14b –

  • Story of Islam

  • Daily humor: What is the best way to study the Bible? You Luke in it.

  • Story of Reagan and Tip O’Neil

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. 400 years

  • Today's trivia: Which book comes after Psalms?

  • Word: emeritus

June 24 - Psalm 34:22a –

  • Story of Jewish massacre of Rintfleisch

  • Daily humor: What Disney theme is God's love like? Hakuna Matata: It means no worries for the rest of your days.

  • Story of Jimmy Carter and no income tax paid

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Proverbs

  • Today's trivia: How many times did the Israelites march around Jericho on the last day?

  • Word: forswear

June 25 - Isaiah 40:11ab –

  • Story of Critical Race Theory

  • Daily humor: How many pairs of animals did Moses take on the Ark? None....that was Noah.

  • Story of the fork

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. 7 (Joshua 6:15)

  • Today's trivia: What tool did David use to kill the giant named Goliath?

  • Word: affluent

June 26 - Psalm 55:22a –

  • Story of Jesus and Pacifism

  • Daily humor: Who are the two stalkers in the Bible? Goodness and Mercy according to Psalm 23:6.

  • Story of Elvis Presley’s last performance

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Slingshot (1 Samuel 17:40-49)

  • Today's trivia: How did God lead the Hebrews through the desert?

  • Word: thesaurus

June 27 - John 6:35c –

  • Story of the Liberty Bell

  • Daily Humor: Want a better complexion? Get a-tone-ment from Jesus.

  • Story of the stock market crash of 1893

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Cloud & Fire (Exodus 13:21)

  • Today's trivia: Which of the following are one-chapter books?

  • Word: desiccate

June 28 - John 14:27a –

  • Story of preparedness

  • Daily humor: What 'pet name' did Boaz have for his new wife? Baby Ruth.

  • Story of Treaty of Versailles

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. All of these

  • Today's trivia: How many days did the Israelites march one time around the wall of Jericho?

  • Word: whilom

June 29 - Psalm 18:28b –

  • Story of mutations

  • Daily humor: What did Saul discover on the road to Damascus? Blind love.

  • Story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 6 (Joshua 6:14)

  • Today's trivia: Isaiah had a vision where he saw which type of angel?

  • Word: oaf

June 30 - Mark 1:17 –

  • Story of Nike and China

  • Daily humor: What do you call a Christian bunny rabbit? A Bible Thumper. (Think Bambie)

  • Story of Jews being expelled in Bern, Switzerland of 1294

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Seraphim (Isaiah 6:1-8)

  • Today's trivia: What is the shortest book in the Old Testament?

  • Word: hale

JULY

July 1 - Psalm 138:7b –

  • Story of the past 100 years of the CCP

  • Daily humor: Want to make God laugh? Make a plan.

  • Story of the first Olympic games

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia:  C. Obadiah

  • Today's trivia: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?

  • Word: bijou

July 2 - Matthew 5:8 –

  • Story of the Salvation Army

  • Daily humor: How do we know Peter was a rich fisherman? By his net income.

  • Story of raining alligators

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Psalm 119

  • Today's trivia: What percent was indicated to give as a tithe?

  • Word: gormandize

July 3 - Hebrews 2:18 –

  • Story of Facebook censorship

  • Daily humor: What kind of cars did Matthew encourage the disciples to drive? Taxis.

  • Story of George Washington and the French-Indian War

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. 10% (Deuteronomy 14:22)

  • Today's trivia: Who was King David's father?

  • Word: inimical

July 4 - Revelation 3:20b –

  • Story of Justice Joseph Story

  • Daily humor: Why was Simon Peter such a good farmer? He fed sheep.

  • Story of Independence Day

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Jesse (1 Samuel 16:11-13)

  • Today's trivia: Which is the last book of the Old Testament?

  • Word: patriot

July 5 - Hebrews 4:9 –

  • Story of Spain introducing legislation to steal its citizens property over healthcare

  • Daily humor: Who are the hottest guys in the Old Testament? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

  • Story of the Secret Service

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Malachi

  • Today's trivia: How many angels are mentioned in the Bible by name?

  • Word: quondam

July 6 - John 6:37b –

  • Story of not being lukewarm

  • Daily humor: What is it that Adam never saw or had yet had two of them for his children? Parents.

  • Story of the Second Continental Congress

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. 4 (Daniel 10:13, Luke 1:19, Isaiah 14:12, Revelation 9:11)

  • Today's trivia: Fleeing the wrath of Queen Jezebel, where did Elijah flee to?

  • Word: deter

July 7 - Hebrews 7:25a –

  • Story of UFOs and illegal aliens, and the Fed destroying our economy

  • Daily humor: Why did Balaam buy a horse? His donkey wouldn't be quiet.

  • Story of sliced bread

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Horeb (1 Kings 19:8)

  • Today's trivia: Moses climbed which mountain to get a view of the promised land?

  • Word: incumbent

July 8 - Psalm 62:8c –

  • Story of Joe Biden’s brownshirts

  • Daily humor: What do true Christians train in? Crossfit.

  • Story of Preacher Jonathan Edwards and Great Awakening

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Nebo (Deuteronomy 34:1)

  • Today's trivia: How many verses are in the Bible? (as close as possible)

  • Word: mulct

July 9 - Philippians 1:20b –

  • Story of Pastor threatened and Tribulation

  • Daily humor: Why did the Israelites wander in the desert for 40 years? Even back then men wouldn't stop for directions.

  • Story of National Debt

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. over 31,000

  • Today's trivia: Who wrote the first five books of the Bible?

  • Word: aleatory

July 10 - Deuteronomy 28:12a –

  • Story skipped for today

  • Daily humor: What kind of car does Jesus drive? A Christ-ler.

  • Story of Scopes Monkey Trial and ‘Evolution’

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Moses

  • Today's trivia: Where does the phrase 'My brother's keeper' come from?

  • Word: cataract

July 11 - Joshua 3:7c –

  • Story of ‘Stakeholder’ Capitalism

  • Daily humor: What was the one thing the Prodigal Son's father got mad at him for losing? His way.

  • Story of Sovtards and the actual beginning of the USMC

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Genesis (Genesis 4:9)

  • Today's trivia: Which book begins with: "In the beginning God created..."

  • Word: nonplus

July 12 - 1 Kings 8:56b –

  • Asking of prayer request

  • Daily humor: What sort of lights were on Noah's Ark? Flood lights.

  • Story of St. Basil’s Cathedral

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Genesis (Genesis 1:1)

  • Today's trivia: What did Moses do when he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew?

  • Word: emprise

July 13 - Psalm 48:14b –

  • Answer to  yesterday's trivia: A. Killed the Egyptian

  • Today's trivia: Which of the following patriarchs had only one wife?

July 14 - Jeremiah 1:8b –

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. None of them.

  • Today's trivia: How many books of the Bible did Timothy write?

July 15 - John 14:19c –

  • Prayer request

  • Stories of Mercy Culture Church, Gates depopulation, New World Order, Voter fraud

  • Daily humor: Why was Jesus' first miracle so sophisticated? It was performed at a wine-tasting.

  • Story of Roman Catholic Church persecuting Jews and false belief of St. Peter being the first Pope

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. 0

  • Today's trivia: When Jesus was walking on water, what did Peter do?

  • Word: flounder

July 16 - Matthew 21:22 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Government, Welfare, Work and Taxes

  • Daily humor: Why did Jesus walk on water? Because He didn't have a swimsuit.

  • Story of The Great Schism

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Got out of the boat (Matthew 14:29)

  • Today's trivia: Who was the Roman governor that sentenced Jesus?

  • Word: omniscient

July 17 - Psalm 149:4 –

  • Prayer request

  • News headlines of Whitmer, children and vaccines, misinformation, and murderous Obama

  • Daily humor: Why did Jacob walk with a limp? An old sports injury from wrestling.

  • Story of Sir Walter Raleigh

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Pilate (John 19:13-16)

  • Today's trivia: Which of the following books of the Bible doesn't mention God?

  • Word: torpor

July 18 - Isaiah 58:11a –

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: What happened to King Saul in a cave? He got punked by David.

  • Story of importance of going to Church

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Esther

  • Today's trivia: Who wrote Acts?

  • Word: parry

July 19 - Deuteronomy 33:27b –

  • Prayer request

  • Research request

  • Daily humor: How can we learn of our fortune? By reading Psalms.

  • Story of Hough riots of 1966 and how it is eerily similar to today.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia:  C. Luke

  • Today's trivia: Paul and Barnabas appointed what at each church they visited?

  • Word: capricious

July 20 - Revelation 21:6c –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of preparedness

  • Daily humor: If God had a refrigerator . . . Your picture would be on it.

  • Story of slave trade and Native Americans

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Elders

  • Today's trivia: What were the disciples doing while Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane?

  • Word: attenuate

July 21 - Matthew 24:13 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Saul Alinsky, Dr. Fraudi and Dr. Rand Paul, Joe Biden and Tara Reade, and Ben Carson on Critical Race Theory and BLM

  • Daily humor: Why was Cain so sad? He wasn't Abel.

  • Story of moon landing

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Sleeping (Matthew 26:40)

  • Today's trivia: Which is the longest book of the Bible?

  • Word: receipt

July 22 - Psalm 91:3a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Soros and Gates, Larry Elder and California, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Paul, mask wearing of children, and why the compiling of DNA databases.

  • Daily humor: Why do only children get into Heaven? Only the children of God will get into Heaven. (Matthew 18:3)

  • Story of Jewish persecution

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia:  A. Psalm

  • Today's trivia: Who wrote the book of Lamentations?

  • Word: phylactery

July 23 - Proverbs 3:6 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of virtuous people about this nonsensical vaccine and flu

  • Daily humor: Who can stand very straight? David, because God made him the Ruler over the nation.

  • Story of outside influence of China becoming a communist country

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B.  Jeremiah

  • Today's trivia: Who became a leper for stealing and lying to Elisha?

  • Word: expropriate

July 24 - Psalm 34:10b –

  • Prayer request

  • Day off

  • Daily humor: What was Noah's favorite footwear? Boat shoes.

  • Story of climate change

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Gehazi (2 Kings 5:27)

  • Today's trivia: When someone wore sackcloth, what was also on their face or body?

  • Word: lexical

July 25 - Acts 10:43b –

  • Prayer request

  • Importance of a Church family

  • Daily humor: What is it called when the Spirit of God starts breaking the chains of bondage? Ghost-busters.

  • Story of African slaves used as guinea pigs on Caribbean plantations

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Ashes

  • Today's trivia: Who was the second king of Israel?

  • Word: hagiography

July 26 - Proverbs 3:34b –

  • Prayer request and update

  • Story of covid and global unrest tied with the UN agenda 2030

  • Daily humor: Where did Adam and Eve go wrong? They started raising "Cain" before they were "Abel".

  • Story of the American Colonization Society

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. David ( 2 Samuel 5)

  • Today's trivia: Whose wife turned into a pillar of salt?

  • Word: urbane

July 27 - Psalm 86:7 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Saul Alinsky, a Foretaste of Fascism, George Soros and Defunding Police, the Nuremberg Code, and government lies

  • Daily humor: What kind of doctor is Jesus? A cardiologist. He specializes in the heart.

  • Story of tobacco first trip to England

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Lot (Genesis 19:26)

  • Today's trivia: God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be . . . 

  • Word: jeremiad

July 28 - Psalm 138:7a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of covid and vaccine and vaccine makers, in-depth information

  •  Daily humor: Why did Lot's wife have high blood pressure? Too much salt in her diet.

  • Story of the nonsense of climate change

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Shown Mercy (Matthew 5:7)

  • Today's trivia: What animal is generally accepted as a Leviathan?

  • Word: bivouac

July 29 - John 4:14b –

  • Prayer request and Life at conception and News of defunding Police in Seattle

  • Story of communist takeover of America in its latter stages

  • Daily humor: Opportunity may knock once . . . but temptation bangs on your door forever.

  • Story of the first transcontinental phone call

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Crocodile 

  • Today's trivia: Which book of the Old Testament give the laws for the Hebrews?

  • Word: palaver

July 30 - 1 Chronicles 22:9d –

  • Prayer request and story of God’s Blessings

  • Story of leftist fools and vaccines and masks and Dan Crenshaw

  • Daily humor: What was the smartest animal on the ark? The snake, no one could pull it's leg.

  • Story of the ‘Great Purge’ of Stalin

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Leviticus (Leviticus 1:1)

  • Today's trivia: Which domestic animal is not mentioned in the Bible?

  • Word: wherefore

July 31 - Psalm 85:8ab –

  • Prayer request

  • Break from this section with pleading for staying in God’s Word

  • Daily humor: What was Jesus' response when the people said "no way!" to his resurrection? Yaweh.

  • Story of Nation of Islam

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Cat

  • Today's trivia: What did Elisha throw into water to make it drinkable?

  • Word: dally

AUGUST

August 01 - Proverbs 8:17b –

  • Prayer request

  • Break again, asking for questions, concerns, or comments

  • Daily humor: Why didn't anyone like the Pharisees? They weren't fair, you see.

  • Story of the Confederacy and ‘Does the Bible really say to ‘obey’ government’?

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Salt

  • Today's trivia: King Hezekiah rebelled against which Assyrian king?

  • Word: pulchritude

August 02 - Psalm 84:11b –

  • Prayer request

  • Break again, asking to be aware of the times

  • Daily humor: What kind of Doctor is Jesus? A Pediatrist since He heals people's "Souls".

  • Story of inheritance tax and evils of welfare and importance of responsibility

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Sennacherib (2 Kings 18)

  • Today's trivia: Who is the father of the twelve tribes of Israel?

  • Word: exemplary

August 03 - Psalm 32:8a –

  • Prayer request and importance thereof

  • Story of more lockdowns and restrictions coming and dangers of this ‘vaccine’

  • Daily humor: How does Jesus being a carpenter make you a carpenter too? He still builds His Kingdom through you.

  • Story of Christopher Columbus setting sail on this day in 1492

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Jacob (Genesis 49:1-28)

  • Today's trivia: Who rescued the Hebrews from slavery?

  • Word: berate

August 04 - Psalm 68:19a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Plannedscamdemic

  • Daily humor: Why was no one ever around the Sadducees? They were always sad, you see.

  • Story of the first step in the direction of communism in the USA

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Moses (Exodus 3:10-11)

  • Today's trivia: Which giant did David kill with a slingshot?

  • Word: flexuous

August 05 - Isaiah 43:25a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of RoundUp, CRT, Sovtards, AG threatening Jail for election audit

  • Daily humor: What's a teens favorite Bible verse? Ephesians 6:4.

  • Story of ‘Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead’

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Goliath (1 Samuel 17)

  • Today's trivia: What does the book of Exodus tell the story of?

  • Word: infix

August 06 - John 12:46 –

  • Prayer request, healthcare, abortions, and Salvation

  • Story of Canadian fortitude over the illegality of covid ‘measures’, Biden says he doesn’t care that he is breaking the law.

  • Daily humor: What is more powerful than God, more evil that the devil, rich people need it, poor people have it and if you eat it you'll die? Nothing.

  • Story of atomic bombing of Hiroshima

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Israelites leaving Egypt (Exodus)

  • Today's trivia: Where can you read about the story of David and Goliath?

  • Word: moot

August 07 - Isaiah 30:15b –

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: What's the first soft drink advertisement in the Bible? Habakkuk (Have a Coke).

  • Story of Desert Shield/Storm

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 17)

  • Today's trivia: What does the book of Esther tell the story of?

  • Word: pink

August 08 - Isaiah 43:2c –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of listening and hearing

  • ​Daily humor: If Goliath were alive today, would you like to tell him the joke about David and Goliath? No, he already fell for it once.

  • Story of Truman signing UN Charter

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. A queen saving lives

  • Today's trivia: What was the name of the area of town where Jesus was crucified?

  • Word: resilience

August 09 - Proverbs 2:6 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of vaccines and mandates and fermented foods and inflation and prepping and is prepping Biblical and government causing racial division and the coming climate lockdowns

  • Daily humor: What is God's favorite type of cheese? Swiss because it is hole-ie.

  • Story of the leaning tower of pisa

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Golgotha (Matthew 27:33)

  • Today's trivia: This man offered the apostles money for the ability to give the Holy Spirit.

  • Word: abject

August 10 - Psalm 27:5a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Dr. Paul  urging Americans to resist the unconstitutional ‘mandates’ and protests over mandates around the world and story of Maxine Waters urging her followers to harass Republicans and story of unrepentant sinners not going to Heaven and  FrankSpeech broadcasting 2020 election fraud evidence.

  • Daily humor: Why do Christians speed on the freeway? They are trying to get to Heaven quicker.

  • Story of Ninevah

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Simon (Acts 8:18)

  • Today's trivia: Who often stole from the disciples' treasury?

  • Word: garnish

August 11 - Psalm 61:3a –

  • Prayer request and order of preaching the Gospel

  • Story of distractions, vaccine deaths and no responsibility, deny medical care to anti-vaxxers

  • Daily humor: Did you know the Bible tells us the name of God? In the Lord's prayer. 'Our Father who art in Heaven, Howard be thy name . . .'

  • Story of Fipronil found in eggs and why big farms are not a good idea

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Judas (John 12:4-6)

  • Today's trivia: Which prophet was commanded by God to take a prostitute as a wife?

  • Word: nimrod

August 12 - Deuteronomy 33:12a –

  • Prayer request and updates

  • Story of the evils of Islam and the slave trade of yesteryear and today

  • Daily humor: Why did Mary have a hard time giving baby Jesus a bath? Because He could walk on water.

  • Story of the possible Star of Bethlehem

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Hosea (Hosea 1:2)

  • Today's trivia: What is the fifth of the Ten Commandments?

  • Word: callow

August 13 - Jeremiah 33:3a –

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: Why did Moses part the Red Sea? To seas the day.

  • Story of the Manhattan Project

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Honor your father and mother (Exodus 20:12)

  • Today's trivia: How many of each kind of animal entered Noah's Ark?

  • Word: kvell

August 14 - Matthew 7:7a –

  • Prayer request and update

  • Story of vaccines, boosters, microchips, mark of the beast and conspiracy theories turned true

  • Daily humor: What two disciples are in charge of putting gas in Jesus' car? Thomas Phillip... (Tom must fill up)

  • Story of US interference of Nicaragua

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 2 (Genesis 6:19)

  • Today's trivia: What bit Paul on the hand?

  • Word: scuttlebutt

August 15 - 1 John 4:16c –

  • Prayer request and story of Why does God allow suffering?

  • Daily humor: Who is the fastest runner in the Bible? Adam was the first in the human race.

  • Story of the formation of Society of Jesuits

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Viper

  • Today's trivia: God blesses those who are humble, for they will . . . 

  • Word: undulant

August 16 - Psalm 121:8 –

  • Story of the sower and the reaper

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: What was the total number of animals that Moses brought unto the Ark? None, Noah brought them.

  • Story of Michelangelo’s Statue of David

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5)

  • Today's trivia: Samson killed this animal with his own hands:

  • Word: bromide

August 17 - Matthew 18:19 –

  • Prayer request and being careful to not let any man deceive you

  • Story of vaccines and boosters, conspiracy theories proven true, worsening terror, muslims in our Congress, Biden recommitting to dumbness, Afghan refugees, vaccine protests around the world, being in constant prayer

  • Daily humor: How do we know Peter was rich? By his net income.

  • Story of public bathhouses in NYC and personal hygiene

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Lion (Judges 14:6)

  • Today's trivia: John the Baptist ate what for meat in the desert?

  • Word: tousle

August 18 - 2 Corinthians 9:8a –

  • Prayer request, useless masks and main stream media lies

  • Story of illegal immigration and stopping of donations to the Red Cross

  • Daily humor: Who developed the first electronic door knocker in the Bible? Enoch.

  • Story of Jews and Salonika of WWII

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Locust (Matthew 3:4)

  • Today's trivia: Which of the following miracles did Jesus not do?

  • Word: defenestration

August 19 - Psalm 145:14 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Mexican government suing American firearm manufacturers

  • Daily humor: Who was most sorry when the Prodigal son returned home? The fatted calf.

  • Story of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia of 1793

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. He did all  of them (Matthew 8, Mark 8)

  • Today's trivia: Which is not a parable taught by Jesus?

  • Word: winnow

August 20 - Isaiah 41:13a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Democrats giving billions of dollars of military equipment to islamists and Mexican drug cartels

  • Daily humor: What's the shortened version of the law Moses received on Mount Sinai? Cliff notes.

  • Story of Iranian Shah and fall thereof

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. All are by Jesus (Matthew 13, Luke 15)

  • Today's trivia: Whose ear did Peter cut off?

  • Word: aghast

August 21 - Matthew 5:9 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of ‘vaccine passports’ San Fran and NYC, antibody sites in Florida, States and Students against ‘mandates’, no science to support face masks

  • Daily humor: What's the only United State mentioned in the Bible? Arkansas - Noah looked out of the Ark-and-saw.

  • Story of China shooting down US planes in 1967, importance of being prepared, China has never been a friend to the west.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Malchus (John 18:10)

  • Today's trivia: Which city did Philip first travel to in order to spread the Good News?

  • Word: sophistry

August 22 - Psalm 86:5 –

  • Prayer requests

  • Story of only putting good things into your ears and eyes and mind

  • Daily humor: Why does God love a cheerful giver? He doesn't care for Sourdough.

  • Story of first US President to ride in a car

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Samaria (Acts 8:5)

  • Today's trivia: In Genesis, the son of Cush was a mighty hunter who established Babylon and Assyria, what was his name?

  • Word: liminal

August 23 - Psalm 37:18 –

  • Prayer requests

  • Story of voting fraud, useless masks, booster shots, Afghanistan, 2nd Amendment, progressive taxation

  • Daily humor: What's another reason for the rocks in Luke 19:40 to cry out? Moses had a striking personality.

  • Story of Japan entering WWI

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Nimrod (1 Chronicles 1:10)

  • Today's trivia: Which member of the high council privately met with Jesus at night?

  • Word: emigrate

August 24 - Isaiah 54:17a –

  • Prayer requests, faith and works and Salvation and Spiritual maturity

  • Story of the virus, climate change nonsense, problems with prophylactic ‘vaccine’, and ineffectiveness of face masks

  • Daily humor: What's the #1 job in the Old Testament? Chiropractor: For they (Israelites) are a stiff-necked people.

  • Story of Magna Carta

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Nicodemus (John 3:12)

  • Today's trivia: Where is this: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

  • Word: cryptic

August 25 - Matthew 5:4 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Pfizer CEO and vaccine resistant ‘variants’, Chinese fluoride in city water, 3.5Trillion dollar money laundering scheme advanced through House

  • Daily humor: Why did people leave Babylon? Because they babbled on and on and on . . . 

  • Story of Great Moon Hoax of 1835

  • ​Answer to yesyterday's trivia: A. Romans 3:23

  • Today's trivia: In the third plague on Egypt, which animal tortured the Egyptians?

  • Word: ossify

August 26 - John 6:47 –

  • Story of Japan and vaccines, Havana syndrome, Fauci and covid antibody treatments, US government and experiments, 18 reasons to not get the shot, Lambda nonsense, Delta surges, extra shots, and vaccinated making unvaccinated sick

  • Daily humor: Who does Jesus call to help Him cut the grass? Mowses

  • Story of fluoride in water

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. All of these (Exodus 8:16)

  • Today's trivia: In the fourth plague on Egypt, the livestock and people were harmed by swarms of what insect?

  • Word: fugitive

August 27 - 2 Corinthians 9:6b –

  • Story of covid in New Zealand and Australia and Spanish Flu and Pfizer whistleblower and bad ingredients of the covid ‘shot’ and US giving list of Americans in Afghanistan to the Taliban

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: Why was Ruth mad at Joshua? Because Joshua Judges Ruth.

  • Story of Krakatoa

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Flies (Exodus 8:24)

  • Today's trivia: The Bronze sea in the Temple rested on the backs of which 12 animals?

  • Word: amenable

August 28 - Isaiah 58:9b –

  • Prayer request and being a sower of God’s Word

  • Story of vaccines being a ‘theranostic’, possible interaction with 5G, ‘vaccine’ set up to work like chemotherapy, and do not be afraid God gives us a heart of courage not of fear

  • Daily humor: What book of the Bible supports "action"? PRO Verbs (Proverbs).

  • Story of 476 takeover of Western Roman Empire

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Ox (1 Kings 7:23-25)

  • Today's trivia: How many people were on Noah's Ark?

  • Word: hubris

August 29 - John 10:27-28 –

  • Prayer requests

  • Daily humor: What book of the Bible points us in the 'right direction'? Aim us (Amos)

  • Story of the first electrical transformer

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. 8 (Genesis 7:13)

  • Today's trivia: Which disciple denied Jesus?

  • Word: lollygag

August 30, 2021 - Proverbs 29:25b –

  • Prayer request, story of King David’s son who died, importance of Baptism, story of importance of having a Church family

  • Story of importance of taking a break from stress and the Peace from Jesus

  • Daily humor: How did Job's life get even harder one day? He was fired from his Job.

  • Story of ‘gun control’ from the year 1146

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Peter (Matthew 26:69-75)

  • Today's trivia: What was the name of Jesus' famous cousin?

  • Word: numinous

August 31, 2021 - Psalm 34:19 –

  • Prayer request and update

  • Healthy lifestyle advice

  • Daily humor: How do know that Paul worked in a local bank? They say he was in bonds.

  • Story of Sullivan laws of 1911

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. John the Baptist (Luke 1:36)

  • Today's trivia: Who bought Joseph from the Midianite traders?

  • Word: desultory

September

September 01, 2021 - Isaiah 14:3a –

  • Prayer requests

  • Story of deceptions with covid and Afghanistan and ‘vaccines’

  • Daily humor: What are two insects mentioned in the Bible? The widows mite and The wicked flee.

  • Story of 1938 Mussolini and race laws

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Potiphar (Genesis 39:1)

  • Today's trivia: Who was thrown into a lion's den by King Nebuchadnezzar? (It is actually a 'den of lions' not 'lion's den')

  • Word: regnant

September 02, 2021 - Matthew 6:32b –

  • Prayer requests and request for you to understand the teachings of Jesus

  • Story of who is really being admitted to hospitals

  • Daily humor: Why did Lot not get along with his wife? Because she was salty.

  • Story of the Great London Fire of 1666

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Daniel (Daniel 6:16)

  • Today's trivia: Which book of the Old Testament is the most recent?

  • Word: doff

September 03, 2021 - Psalm 4:8 –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of a covid pill, long covid, variants, revolutionize cancer treatments, surge warning

  • Daily humor: Did you know that baseball is mentioned in the Bible? The Bible starts off "In the big inning . . . "

  • Story of the oldest Republic and smallest nation

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Malachi

  • Today's trivia: How many verses are repeated twice in the Bible?

  • Word: gasconade

September 04, 2021 - Proverbs 8:17b –

  • Prayer request

  • Break from the lies of the ‘news’ and importance of having a Church family

  • Daily humor: A man and his wife are discussing what they think their son will be when he grows up. "I have an idea" says the father. He puts a ten-dollar bill, a bottle of whiskey and a Bible on the coffee table . . .

  • "If he takes the money, he'll be a banker. If he takes the whiskey, he'll be a wino and if he takes the Bible, that means he'll be a preacher."

  • So the man and his wife hide just before their son comes in the door, and watch from where they're hiding.

  • The boy saunters over to the coffee table.

  • He picks up the ten-dollar bill, looks at it, then sets it down.

  • He picks up the bottle of whiskey, uncorks it, sniffs it, then sets it back down.

  • He picks up the Bible, leafs through it, and sets it down.

  • Then the boy takes the money and stuffs it into his pocket, grabs the whiskey and walks off with the Bible under his arm.

  • "Well, how do you like that!" exclaims the father, "He's going to be a politician!"

  • Story of US covert actions interference of Chilean elections

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 1 (Psalms 14:1, Psalms 53:1)

  • Today's trivia: Which of the tribes of Israel were given the role of priests?

  • Word: jeopardize

September 05, 2021 - Romans 5:1 –

  • Prayer request and update

  • Story of Bill Gates landowner and depopulation enthusiast, UN Agenda 21/30, Covid PCR test flaws, overpopulation myth

  • Daily humor: How do you know Jesus likes Japanese food? Because He loves me so (miso).

  • Story of Prussia declaration of search of Jewish homes for stolen goods

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Levi (Deuteronomy 18:5)

  • Today's trivia: Which Moabite woman followed her mother-in-law to Judah?

  • Word: adamantine

September 06, 2021 - John 6:35b –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Covid and AIDS connection?

  • Daily humor: Pray for my friend, he told me he only believes 12.5% of the Bible . . . he said he's an eighth theist.

  • Story of 1970 Palestine hijacking airliners

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Ruth (Ruth 1:16)

  • Today's trivia: How long was Jesus tempted in the wilderness?

  • Word: coiffure

September 07, 2021 - 2 Timothy 4:18a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of vaccines and variants

  • Daily humor: What day did Mary give birth to Jesus? Labor Day.

  • Story of the Federation Drought of 1902 of Australia

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. 40 nights (Matthew 4:2)

  • Today's trivia: How many days had Lazarus been buried before Jesus raised him from the dead?

  • Word: suborn

September 08, 2021 - Psalm 50:15ab –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of covid and vaccine lies

  • Daily humor: What do you call it when Batman skips Church? Christian Bale.

  • Story of Woodrow Wilson pushing America closer to communism

  • ​Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Four (John 11:39)

  • Today's trivia: As an outward sign of sorrow or mourning what would someone do?

  • Word: egregious

September 09, 2021 - Acts 2:21b –

  • Prayer request, importance of prayer, and importance of being prepared

  • Story of communist takeover of USA, virus and vaccine nonsense, booster shots and mutations

  • Story of abortion industry

  • Daily humor: What did Jonah say when God asked him to go to Ninevah? Whale . . . (As opposed to "Well...")

  • Story of Joseph McCarthy and the spread of communism

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Tear their clothes (2 Samuel 1:11)

  • Today's trivia: How old was Noah when he exited the Ark?

  • Word: brogue

September 10, 2021 - Proverbs 16:7 –

  • Prayer requests of utmost importance’

  • Story of covid, masks, mandates, vaccines, alternative meds, lawsuits, and lies

  • Daily humor: There are two great financial geniuses in the Bible.

  • One was Noah, who floated his stock while everyone else had to go into liquidation.

  • The other was pharaoh's daughter, who went to the bank of the Nile and drew out a prophet.

  • Story of 1913 Lincoln Highway

  • ​Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. 601 (Genesis 8:13)

  • Today's trivia: What creatures did God send to afflict the Israelites in the desert?

  • Word: fulminate

September 11, 2021 - Psalm 9:9a –

  • Prayer request for the fallen of 9/11/01 and those still suffering and the dangers of Islam

  • Story of Joseph Storey’s commentaries on the US Constitution

  • Daily humor: Why did God create man before woman? Because He didn't want any advice on how to do it.

  • Story of September 11, 1857 and the evils of the Mormons

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Snakes (Numbers 21:6)

  • Today's trivia: He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet ______.

  • Word: sedentary

September 12, 2021 - Psalm 121:7a –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of Church and UK dropping vaccine passports

  • Daily humor: Why do we read the Bible? B.est I.nstructions B.efore L.eaving E.arth

  • Story of Switzerland Constitution

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Waters (Psalm 23:2)

  • Today's trivia: What is the fourth commandment God gave Moses?

  • Word: adversary

September 13, 2021 - Psalm 27:5b –

  • Prayer request, taxes, Jesus, and importance of having a Church family

  • Story of UK scrapping vaccine passports, mandate penalties, lawsuits and possible ‘why’, China and covid, vaccinate children?, polysorbate 80, PEG, and Guillain-Barre syndrome

  • Daily humor: I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

  • Story of the consecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Remember the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8)

  • Today's trivia: According to Paul, what are we free to call God when we approach Him?

  • Word: inflammable

September 14, 2021 - Job 23:10b –

  • Prayer request and importance of Faith and works and staying away from evil

  • Story of Biden campaigning for Newsom, more fear mongering nonsense, mandates, China, and Texas standing up to the social media stupidity

  • Daily humor: Who was the greatest babysitter in the Bible? David. He rocked Goliath to sleep.

  • Story of OPEC beginning

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Father (Ephesians 2:18)

  • Today's trivia: Who was the first apostle to state he believed Jesus was the Messiah?

  • Word: responsive

September 15, 2021 - Psalm 119:165a –

  • Prayer request and alarm to be ready to fight for our freedoms and sovereignty

  • Story of Tribulation, Marxism and BLM, homosexuality, and the slave trade

  • Story of covid and mild and asymptomatic, and religious exemption

  • Daily humor: What was the name of Isaiah's horse? Isme, he was always saying, "whoa (woe) is me!"

  • Story of the first train passenger to be killed

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Peter (Matthew 16:16)

  • Today's trivia: What is the shortest verse in the Bible showing Jesus' humanity?

  • Word: tribulation

September 16, 2021 - Psalm 27:5b –

  • Prayer request and get prepared to fight for our rights

  • Story of OSHA and vaccines, Teacher claiming the flag is reprehensible, lots of people the world over fighting mandatory vaccines, lies of hospitals being full, election integrity

  • Daily humor: Who is the biggest sinner in the Bible? Moses, he broke all the Commandments at once.

  • Story of Wall Street bombing of 1920

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Jesus wept (John 11:35)

  • Today's trivia: How long did Paul stay in Corinth during his first visit there?

  • Word: exonerate

September 17, 2021 - Proverbs 11:22 –

  • Prayer request and discussion of persistent prayer

  • Story of Dan Crenshaw and others who deceive, covid, Boeing, vaccines and mandates, debt ceiling, flu season, monoclonal antibodies, and California election

  • Daily humor: Why did God create Adam before Eve? So Adam could have a few moments of peace.

  • Story of Emperor Norton

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. A year and a half (Acts 18:1-11)

  • Today's trivia: Proverbs describes a woman without discretion to an animal with a jewel located where?

  • Word: precarious

September 18, 2021 - Psalm 146:8b –

  • Prayer request and differences of Creation and evolution

  • Daily humor: I bought a book calling itself 'The Bible of being a self-entitled white woman'. It's called the Ka'ran.

  • Story of Transylvanian peasant revolt

  • ​Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Pig's snout (Proverbs 11:22)

  • Today's trivia: What does Abraham mean?

  • Word: vignette

September 19, 2021 - Matthew 23:12b –

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: How do you make Holy Water? Get water and boil the devil out of it.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Father of a multitude (Genesis 17:5)

  • Today's trivia: Who lied to the Holy Spirit and an apostle and died with her husband?

  • Word: lucid

September 20, 2021 - James 4:6c –

  • Prayer request, hypocrisy of alcohol and marijuana, and moderation

  • Story of Dems and illegals, problems with vaccines and mandates, covid testing, and boosters

  • Daily humor: What did Elijah sing on Mount Carmel after he had set up an altar to the Lord? "Light my fire"

  • Story of the ‘great compromise’ of 1850

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Sapphira (Acts 5:1-10)

  • Today's trivia: Which prophet made an ax head float to the surface of a river?

  • Word: collude

September 21, 2021 - Psalm 55:22b –

  • Prayer request and problems of mandates and Christians who deny freedom, the apostasy, abominations, judging, rebuking the unbeliever, and storing up treasures in Heaven

  • Story of Trudeau, Ghislaine, Prince Andrew, covid, vaccines, passports, mandates, masks, military in the streets, communism, homosexuality

  • Daily humor: How did Jesus fast for 40 days? He ate everlasting bread.

  • Story of Joseph Smith

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Elisha (2 Kings 6:6)

  • Today's trivia: Where is this: Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

  • Word: flehmen

September 22, 2021 - Galatians 6:7c –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of covid vaccine, exposing evil, mandates, RINOs selling out even further, nonsense of covid variants, Trump, UN speech, mega tsunami, Biden laptop, children and vaccine

  • Daily humor: Whose coleslaw did Pharaoh dislike? Moses'slaw

  • Story of Charles Darwin and discovery of fossils in 1832

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Genesis 2:1 (Genesis 2:1)

  • Today's trivia: Where in the Bible is a book written by Paul concerning a slave?

  • Word: inchoate

September 23, 2021 - Psalm 103:12 –

  • Prayer request

  • Covid, mutations, PCR tests, vaccines, mandates, vaccinated getting sick, hypocrisy, definition changes, abortion, jet stream, Biden laptop, Clinton caught lying, winged microchips, WWII planes in Greenland

  • Daily humor: I used to be addicted to the hokey pokey . . . but Jesus turned my life around.

  • Story of John Paul Jones

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Philemon (Philemon 1:10)

  • Today's trivia: Who tricked Jacob into marrying his daughter?

  • Word: chastise

September 24, 2021 - Isaiah 43:25a –

  • Prayer request

  • Nonsensical fear

  • Daily humor: Why does God need new socks? Because His are holy.

  • Story of KFC

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Laban (Genesis 29:25)

  • Today's trivia: John the Baptist wore this animal's hair as clothing.

  • Word: hobknob

September 25, 2021 - 1 Peter 5:7 –

  • Prayer request and an important teaching video link

  • Booster shots and money, mutating virus, toilet paper shortage again, Dr. Tenpenny, the vaccinated getting sick, pitting vaccinated vs unvaccinated, FDA drugs that turned out to be bad, Biden lying to Americans, 18 reasons to not get the shot, gun grab in dems bill

  • Daily humor: Who is the greatest babysitter mentioned in the Bible? David. He rocked Goliath to a very deep sleep.

  • Story of Henry Ford

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Camel (Matthew 3:4)

  • Today's trivia: Who was the first man God created?

  • Word: obtuse

September 26, 2021 - Acts 10:35 –

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: How do you know if you're paying enough attention to God? Check your selfies (self-ease).

  • Story of the Great Plague

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Adam (Genesis 2:19)

  • Today's trivia: Who is the oldest person mentioned in Genesis?

  • Word: dedication

September 27, 2021 - Psalm 34:7 –

  • Prayer request and light touch on some subjects

  • Trump and 2024, Biden and border, Chicago murders, covid, FDA gets a lot wrong, Nazi empire, vote audit

  • Daily humor: What do you get when you combine Noah with a seraph? An arkangel.

  • Story of peace negotiations of USA and Britain 1779

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Methuselah (Genesis 5:27)

  • Today's trivia: Which of Adam's sons lived in the land of Nod?

  • Word: misbegotten

September 28, 2021 - John 15:5b –

  • Prayer request and importance of having a Church family

  • Story of PCR problems, frontline worker shortage, vaccines, problems with mutations, flu shots, Project Veritas, Georgia guidestones

  • Daily humor: Do you know the first motorcycle mentioned in the Bible? You could hear Jesus triumph all over the land.

  • Story of flogging in the USN

  • ​Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Cain (Genesis 4:16)

  • Today's trivia: Which book begins with: These are the words of the Teacher . . .

  • Word: parlay

September 29, 2021 - John 8:31b –

  • Prayer request and plead for you to help sow seeds of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

  • Vaccine side effects, Alabama prisons, block the debt ceiling, homonyms of the Kochs, Ivermectin, Virginia governor race, Obama warning, booster shots, why to not get ‘vaccine’, Project Veritas exposing the evil of the ‘vaccine’, breakthrough infections, mutations, vaccine IDs, 50k medicare recipients dead, how to resist vaccine mandates

  • Daily humor: Download your worries . . . and get online with God.

  • Story of 1911 Italy declaring war on Turkey

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 1:1)

  • Today's trivia: How did Herod order James to be killed?

  • Word: zest

September 30, 2021 - Luke 6:37c –

  • Prayer request and story of doctor visit

  • Daily humor: When my spirit feels weak, I turn to the fourth book of the Bible. After all, there's strength in Numbers.

  • Story of Nuremberg trial

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. A sword (Acts 12:2)

  • Today's trivia: What dispute caused Paul and Barnabas to separate?

  • Word: filial

OCTOBER

October 01, 2021 - 2 Timothy 4:18b –

  • Prayer request

  • Story of gun rights, Delta nonsense and truth of virus replication, daily covid pill, voter fraud

  • Daily humor: The Bible is one of the best-selling books in the world. It's very prophetable.

  • Story of Karl Marx and ‘Das Kapital’

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Bringing John Mark (Acts 15:36-40)

  • Today's trivia: Which king of Israel is best known for dancing to worship God?

  • Word: vestige

October 02, 2021 - Isaiah 41:10de –

  • Prayer request and be not deceived

  • Story of more J&J Vax causing clotting, FDA getting it wrong, smallpox stats, Comirnaty is only approved FDA vax and isn’t available in USA, virus mutation facts, Vaccine passport IS mark of the beast, heart inflammation, Joe’s lies, and conservatives seceding from the Union

  • Daily humor: Who had the greatest case of constipation in the Bible? Revelation tells us that Satan will be bound up for a thousand years.

  • Story of Brigham Young 1870

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. David (2 Samuel 6:14)

  • Today's trivia: How many verses talk about money and possessions?

  • Word: cozen

October 03, 2021 - Matthew 5:7 –

  • Prayer request

  • Daily humor: Where did Noah keep the bees on the Ark? Ark-hives (achives)

  • Story of George Washington proclamation of day of thanks as November 26

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Over 2,000

  • Today's trivia: Where does the Bible talk about the Fruits of the Spirit?

  • Word: adroit

October 04, 2021 - Isaiah 60:20c –

  • Prayer request

  • Unvax students sue school, covid vax makers do not get peace prize, nonsense of virus mutating to need new meds, Biden admin creating fear in the poultry marketplace, CDC nonsense

  • Daily humor: What is the best verse for a nursery? 1 Corinthians 15:51 - ". . . We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."

  • Story of Russian famine of 1921-23

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Galatians (Galatians 5:22-23)

  • Today's trivia: What animal saved Balaam's life when he encountered the Angel of the Lord?

  • Word: mettle

October 05, 2021 - John 12:26c –

  • Prayer request

  • Vaccination rates escalate and so do ‘cases’, waning effectiveness of ‘vaccine’, stupidity of firing healthcare workers while in a ‘pandemic’, new virus, lies of deaths, doctor equating ingredients of Twinkies with covid ‘vaccine’, and parents being targeted by FBI for taking an active interest in their children’s education.

  • Daily humor: What kind of plants didn't Noah take on the Ark? Leeks

  • Story of Saxby Gale hurricane

  • ​Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Donkey (Numbers 22:23)

  • Today's trivia: Which king is responsible for splitting Israel into two kingdoms?

  • Word: intransigent

October 06, 2021 - 1 John 5:14b –

  • Prayer request and dangers of being a lukewarm Christian

  • Covid and vaccines and hospitals letting people die, firing healthcare workers amid a ‘pandemic’, PCR lies, Google, communism, Biden nominee a Marxist

  • Daily humor: What is the best verse for a kitchen? "For everything there is a season" (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

  • Story of first train robbery

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:18-19)

  • Today's trivia: Who dreamed that the sun, moon, and 11 stars would bow down to him?

  • Word: loll

October 07, 2021 - The Book Of Proverbs

  • Prayer request and dangers of being lukewarm

  • Vaccine problems, US Patents highlight this has been in the works for a long time, vaccine efficacy waning, hospitals and doctors violating their Hippocratic Oath, vaccine side effects, a dark winter coming along with a ‘cyber pandemic’

  • Daily humor: The thief that stole my diary and my Bible died today. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

  • Story of Jewish calendar

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Joseph (Genesis 37:9)

  • Today's trivia: Because he didn't give glory to God, this king was eaten by worms.

  • Word: cavalier

October 08, 2021 - Proverbs 1:5-6 –

  • Prayer request and vaccine bad

  • Lawsuits and mandates

  • Daily humor: Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember, Moses started out as a basket case.

  • Story of the first ‘internet’

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Herod (Acts 12:23)

  • Today's trivia: At the Last Supper Jesus drank this to represent his blood.

  • Word: scion

October 09, 2021 - Proverbs 1:7 –

  • Daily humor: Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember Moses started out as a basket case.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. Wine (Mark 14:24)

  • Today's trivia: Which book is the last of the gospels?

October 10, 2021 - Proverbs 1:8-9 –

  • Daily humor: Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their pews.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: A. John (John 1:1)

  • Today's trivia: How many times does the word 'God' occur in the Bible?

October 11, 2021 - Proverbs 1:10 –

  • Daily humor: Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisors.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. 4370

  • Today's trivia: Where was David anointed king?

October 12, 2021 - Proverbs 1: 11-16 –

  • Daily humor: It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Hebron (2 Samuel 5:3)

  • Today's trivia: Who did Samson fall in love with that led to his downfall?

October 13, 2021 - Proverbs 1:17-18 –

  • Daily humor: The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Delilah (Judges 16:4)

  • Today's trivia: This man became a slave to his uncles as a punishment to his father.

October 14, 2021 - Proverbs 1:19 –

  • Daily humor: People are funny; they want to front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the Church...

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Canaan (Genesis 9:27)

  • Today's trivia: What city is known for its blatant immorality?

October 15, 2021 - Proverbs 1:20-22 –

  • Daily humor: Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Sodom (Genesis 18:20)

  • Today's trivia: Which animal is a symbol of Christianity?

October 16, 2021 - Proverbs 1:23 –

  • Story of shifting from covid to climate change

  • ​Daily humor: T.G.I.F.: Thank God I'm Forgiven

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Fish

  • Today's trivia: What was Demetrius of Ephesus' profession?

  • Word: gossamer

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October 17, 2021 - Proverbs 1:24-30 –

  • Prayer request and importance of fellowshipping

  • Mask nonsense, government spending danger, stench of California and New Jersey, problems of covid testing, vaccines, and dangers of being ‘lukewarm’

  • Daily humor: What is the best vitamin for a Christian? B1

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Silversmith (Acts 19:24)

  • Today's trivia: Which river did John the Baptist baptize people in?

  • Word: perpetuity

October 18, 2021 - Proverbs 1:31-33 –

  • Prayer requests and do not be afraid, repent and turn to God

  • Delta defying mandates, anti-vax denied transplant, PCR and masks and oxymoron of social distancing, problems with the vaccine, gay mayor Pete wondering how a man can breastfeed, climate change nonsense debunking

  • Daily humor: The Church is a gift from God . . . Some assembly required.

  • Story of Mason-Dixon line

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: C. Jordan (Mark 1:9)

  • Today's trivia: What type of bird sold for two farthings in Jesus' time?

  • Word: zaftig

October 19, 2021 - Proverbs 2:1-2 –

  • Prayer requests

  • Latino Catholics and the vaccine and a new ‘strain’ of fear mongering

  • Daily humor: We are souler powered . . . by the Son.

  • Story of 1597 shipwreck of Catholics in Japan

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Sparrow (Luke 12:6)

  • Today's trivia: Who was the only female judge of Israel in the Old Testament?

  • Word: nomenclature

October 20, 2021 - Proverbs 2:3 –

  • Prayer request and explanation for no email yesterday

  • Daily humor: What is the best weather forecast? God reigns and Son shines.

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: D. Deborah (Judges 4:4)

  • Today's trivia: Joshua went how many spies into the city of Jericho?

October 21, 2021 - Proverbs 2:4 –

  • Prayer request and problems of thinking ‘feelings’ are important

  • Story of vaccines and their problems, vaccinated people being super spreaders, climate nonsense, and US Government inhumane experiments

  • Daily humor: What's missing in Ch_ _ch? U R

  • Story of 1800’s Germany

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. 2 (Joshua 2:1)

  • Today's trivia: Which book is in the middle of the Old Testament?

  • Word: untoward

October 22, 2021 - Proverbs 2:5 –

  • Prayer request and dangers of Congress and the NDAA

  • Pennsylvania train rape and call to help the citizens of Australia

  • Daily humor: What is life without Christ like? An unsharpened pencil - no point.

  • Story of Greenwich meantime

  • Answer to yesterday's trivia: B. Proverbs

  • Today's trivia: Which is the only epistle to be anonymous?

  • Word: devotion

Archived Daily Devotionals

March, 2021

Monday, March 01, 2021

Psalm 37:28a -

"The Lord . . . forsaketh not his saints."

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That God will not desert us, but graciously protect us in our difficulties and straits (v. 28): The Lord loves judgment; he delights in doing justice himself and he delights in those that do justice; and therefore he forsakes not his saints in affliction when others make themselves strange to them and become shy of them, but he takes care that they be preserved for ever, that is, that the saint in every age be taken under his protection, that the succession be preserved to the end of time, and that particular saints be preserved from all the temptations and through all the trials of this present time, to that happiness which shall be for ever. He will preserve them to his heavenly kingdom; that is a preservation for ever, 2 Tim. 4:18; Ps. 12:7.

6. That we shall have a comfortable settlement in this world, and in a better when we leave this. That we shall dwell for evermore (v. 27), and not be cut off as the seed of the wicked, v. 28. Those shall not be tossed that make God their rest and are at home in him. But on this earth there is no dwelling for ever, no continuing city; it is in heaven only, that city which has foundations, that the righteous shall dwell for ever; that will be their everlasting habitation.

Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Isaiah 43:1b -

"I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine."

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This chapter has a plain connexion with the close of the foregoing chapter, but a very surprising one. It was there said that Jacob and Israel would not walk in God's ways, and that when he corrected them for their disobedience they were stubborn and laid it not to heart; and now one would think it should have followed that God would utterly abandon and destroy them; but no, the next words are, But now, fear not, O Jacob! O Israel! I have redeemed thee, and thou art mine. Though many among them were untractable and incorrigible, yet God would continue his love and care for his people, and the body of that nation should still be reserved for mercy. God's goodness takes occasion from man's badness to appear so much the more illustrious. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (Rom. 5:20), and mercy rejoices against judgment, as having prevailed and carried the day, Jam. 2:13. Now the sun, breaking out thus of a sudden from behind a thick and dark cloud, shines the brighter, and with a pleasing surprise. The expressions of God's favour and good-will to his people here are very high, and speak abundance of comfort to all the spiritual seed of upright Jacob and praying Israel; for to us is this gospel preached as well as unto those that were captives in Babylon, Heb. 4:2.

Wednesday, March 03, 2021

John 6:35ab -

"I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger."

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He here shows that he is the true bread; this he repeats again and again, v. 33, 35, 48-51. Observe, [1.] That Christ is bread is that to the soul which bread is to the body, nourishes and supports the spiritual life (is the staff of it) as bread does the bodily life; it is the staff of life. The doctrines of the gospel concerning Christ—that he is the mediator between God and man, that he is our peace, our righteousness, our Redeemer; by these things do men live. Our bodies could better live without food than our souls without Christ. Bread-corn is bruised (Isa. 28:28), so was Christ; he was born at Bethlehem, the house of bread, and typified by the show-bread. [2.] That he is the bread of God (v. 33), divine bread; it is he that is of God (v. 46), bread which my Father gives (v. 32), which he has made to be the food of our souls; the bread of God's family, his children's bread. The Levitical sacrifices are called the bread of God (Lev. 21:21, 22), and Christ is the great sacrifice; Christ, in his word and ordinances, the feast upon the sacrifice. [3.] That he is the bread of life (v. 35, and again, v. 48), that bread of life, alluding to the tree of life in the midst of the garden of Eden, which was to Adam the seal of that part of the covenant, Do this and live, of which he might eat and live. Christ is the bread of life, for he is the fruit of the tree of life. First, He is the living bread (so he explains himself, v. 51): I am the living bread. Bread is itself a dead thing, and nourishes not but by the help of the faculties of a living body; but Christ is himself living bread, and nourishes by his own power. Manna was a dead thing; if kept but one night, it putrefied and bred worms; but Christ is ever living, everlasting bread, that never moulds, nor waxes old. The doctrine of Christ crucified is now as strengthening and comforting to a believer as ever it was, and his mediation still of as much value and efficacy as ever. Secondly, He gives life unto the world (v. 33), spiritual and eternal life; the life of the soul in union and communion with God here, and in the vision and fruition of him hereafter; a life that includes in it all happiness. The manna did only reserve and support life, did not preserve and perpetuate life, much less restore it; but Christ gives life to those that were dead in sin. The manna was ordained only for the life of the Israelites, but Christ is given for the life of the world; none are excluded from the benefit of this bread, but such as exclude themselves. Christ came to put life into the minds of men, principles productive of acceptable performances. [4.] That he is the bread which came down from heaven; this is often repeated here, v. 33, 50, 51, 58. This denotes, First, The divinity of Christ's person. As God, he had a being in heaven, whence he came to take our nature upon him: I came down from heaven, whence we may infer his antiquity, he was in the beginning with God; his ability, for heaven is the firmament of power; and his authority, he came with a divine commission. Secondly, The divine original of all that good which flows to us through him. He comes, not only katabas—that came down (v. 51), but katabainoµi—that comes down; he is descending, denoting a constant communication of light, life, and love, from God to believers through Christ, as the manna descended daily; see Eph. 1:3. Omnia desuper—All things from above. [5.] That he is that bread of which the manna was a type and figure (v. 58), that bread, the true bread, v. 32. As the rock that they drank of was Christ, so was the manna they ate of spiritual bread, 1 Co. 10:3, 4. Manna was given to Israel; so Christ to the spiritual Israel. There was manna enough for them all; so in Christ a fulness of grace for all believers; he that gathers much of this manna will have none to spare when he comes to use it; and he that gathers little, when his grace comes to be perfected in glory, shall find that he has no lack. Manna was to be gathered in the morning; and those that would find Christ must seek him early. Manna was sweet, and, as the author of the Wisdom of Solomon tells us (Wisd. 16:20), was agreeable to every palate; and to those that believe Christ is precious. Israel lived upon manna till they came to Canaan; and Christ is our life. There was a memorial of the manna preserved in the ark; so of Christ in the Lord's supper, as the food of souls.
 

Saturday, March 06, 2021

Psalm 27:5c -

"He shall set me up upon a rock."

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Two things he will be confident of:-1. That he shall be safe. "If God is my salvation, in the time of trouble he shall hide me; he shall set me out of danger and above the fear of it." God will not only find out a shelter for his people in distress (as he did Jer. 36:26), but he will himself be their hiding-place, Ps. 32:7. His providence will, it may be, keep them safe; at least his grace will make them easy. His name is the strong tower into which by faith they run, Prov. 18:10. "He shall hide me, not in the strongholds of En-gedi (1 Sa. 23:29), but in the secret of his tabernacle." The gracious presence of God, his power, his promise, his readiness to hear prayer, the witness of his Spirit in the hearts of his people—these are the secret of his tabernacle, and in these the saints find cause for that holy security and serenity of mind in which they dwell at ease. This sets them upon a rock which will not sink under them, but on which they find firm footing for their hopes; nay, it sets them up upon a rock on high, where the raging threatening billows of a stormy sea cannot touch them; it is a rock that is higher than we, Ps. 61:2. 2. That he shall be victorious (v. 6): "Now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies, not only so as that they cannot reach it with their darts, but so as that I shall be exalted to bear rule over them." David here, by faith in the promise of God, triumphs before the victory, and is as sure, not only of the laurel, but of the crown, as if it were already upon his head.

Monday, March 08, 2021

Psalm 145:14a -

"The Lord upholdeth all that fall."

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First, He supports those that are sinking, and it is his honour to help the weak, v. 14. He upholds all that fall, in that, though they fall, they are not utterly cast down. Many of the children of men are brought very low by sickness and other distresses, and seem ready to drop into the grave, and yet Providence wonderfully upholds them, raises them up, and says, Return, Ps. 110:3. If all had died who once seemed dying, the world would have been very thin. Many of the children of God, who have been ready to fall into sin, to fall into despair, have experienced his goodness in preventing their falls, or recovering them speedily by his graces and comforts, so that, though they fell, they were not utterly cast down, Ps. 37:24. If those who were bowed down by oppression and affliction are raised up, it was God that raised them. And, with respect to all those that are heavy-laden under the burden of sin, if they come to Christ by faith, he will ease them, he will raise them.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Galatians 6:9 -

"Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

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Here is a further caution given us, not to be weary in well doing, v. 9. As we should not excuse ourselves from any part of our duty, so neither should we grow weary in it. There is in all of us too great a proneness to this; we are very apt to flag and tire in duty, yea to fall off from it, particularly that part of it to which the apostle has here a special regard, that of doing good to others. This therefore he would have us carefully to watch and guard against; and he gives this very good reason for it, because in due season we shall reap, if we faint not, where he assures us that there is a recompence of reward in reserve for all who sincerely employ themselves in well doing; that this reward will certainly be bestowed on us in the proper season—if not in this world, yet undoubtedly in the next; but then that it is upon supposition that we faint not in the way of our duty; if we grow weary of it, and withdraw from it, we shall not only miss of this reward, but lose the comfort and advantage of what we have already done; but, if we hold on and hold out in well-doing, though our reward may be delayed, yet it will surely come, and will be so great as to make us an abundant recompence for all our pains and constancy. Note, Perseverance in well-doing is our wisdom and interest, as well as our duty, for to this only is the reward promised.

Example of today: we must not falter nor stumble in getting the truth to as many people as we can, like this whole covid nonsense and the experimental and deadly 'vaccine'.  If you would like a copy of my research send me an email: brosius30@hotmail.com  Take care and God Bless.

Friday, March 12, 2021

1 John 3:22ab -

"Whatsoever we as, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments."

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To indicate the privilege of those who have a good conscience towards God. They have interest in heaven and in the court above; their suits are heard there: And whatsoever we ask we receive of him, v. 22. It is supposed that the petitioners do not desire, or do not intend to desire, any thing that is contrary to the honour and glory of the court or to their own intended spiritual good, and then they may depend upon receiving the good things they ask for; and this supposition may well be made concerning the petitioners, or they may well be supposed to receive the good things they ask for, considering their qualification and practice: Because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight, v. 22. Obedient souls are prepared for blessings, and they have promise of audience; those who commit things displeasing to God cannot expect that he should please them in hearing and answering their prayers, Ps. 66:18; Prov. 28:9.
 

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Luke 21:33 -

"Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away."

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He charges them to look upon those things as neither doubtful nor distant (for then they would not make a due impression on them), but as sure and very near. The destruction of the Jewish nation, 1. Was near (v. 32): This generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled. There were some now alive that should see it; some that now heard the prediction of it. 2. It was sure; the sentence was irreversible; it was a consumption determined; the decree was gone forth (v. 33): "Heaven and earth shall pass away sooner than any word of mine: nay, they certainly shall pass away, but my words shall not; whether they take hold or no, they will take effect, and not one of them fall to the ground," 1 Sa. 3:19.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Lamentations 3:22b-23a -

"His compassions fail not. They are new every morning."

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 That even in the depth of their affliction they still have experience of the tenderness of the divine pity and the truth of the divine promise. They had several times complained that God had not pitied (ch. 2:17, 21), but here they correct themselves, and own, 1. That God's compassions fail not; they do not really fail, no, not even when in anger he seems to have shut up his tender mercies. These rivers of mercy run fully and constantly, but never run dry. No; they are new every morning; every morning we have fresh instances of God's compassion towards us; he visits us with them every morning (Job 7:18); every morning does he bring his judgment to light, Zep. 3:5. When our comforts fail, yet God's compassions do not. 2. That great is his faithfulness. Though the covenant seemed to be broken, they owned that it still continued in full force; and, though Jerusalem be in ruins, the truth of the Lord endures for ever. Note, Whatever hard things we suffer, we must never entertain any hard thoughts of God, but must still be ready to own that he is both kind and faithful.
 

Remember, it is never too late until it is too late. If you have breath, it is not too late.  Ask God for forgiveness and repent. Repentance has 2 parts; 1. to turn away from your sin and 2. to turn towards God.

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Daily Humor:  What's the first reference to kidney stones in the Bible?

A. Judges 3:26, states Ehud passed the stones. 

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Philippians 4:7 -

"The peace of God (which transcends all understanding), shall keep your hearts and minds."

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As a sovereign antidote against perplexing care he recommends to us constant prayer: In every thing by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Observe, 1. We must not only keep up stated times for prayer, but we must pray upon every particular emergency: In every thing by prayer. When any thing burdens our spirits, we must ease our minds by prayer; when our affairs are perplexed or distressed, we must seek direction and support. 2. We must join thanksgiving with our prayers and supplications. We must not only seek supplies of good, but own receipts of mercy. Grateful acknowledgments of what we have argue a right disposition of mind, and are prevailing motives for further blessings. 3. Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God, or making them known to him: Let your requests be made known to God. Not that God needs to be told either our wants or desires; for he knows them better than we can tell him: but he will know them from us, and have us show our regards and concern, express our value of the mercy and sense of our dependence on him. 4. The effect of this will be the peace of God keeping our hearts, v. 7. The peace of God, that is, the comfortable sense of our reconciliation to God and interest in his favor, and the hope of the heavenly blessedness, and enjoyment of God hereafter, which passeth all understanding, is a great good than can be sufficiently valued or duly expressed. It has not entered into the heart of ham, 1 Co. 2:9. This peace will keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus; it will keep us from sinning under our troubles, and from sinking under them; keep us calm and sedate, without discomposure of passion, and with inward satisfaction. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, Isa. 26:3.

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Remember Gods ways are not our ways, Gods thoughts are not our thoughts.  Our three pound brains cannot comprehend the ways of the Lord, which is why we must remain in the Word and keep Jesus in our hearts and minds at all times. I like the phrase: "No Jesus, No Peace; Know Jesus, Know Peace."

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Daily Humor: Why did Jesus turn water into wine?

Because he was King of the Juice.

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This day in history: 

Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the moon, however that project was cancelled.

Thursday, March 04, 2021

Psalm 37:5 -

"Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."

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We must make God our guide, and submit in every thing to his guidance and disposal; and then all our affairs, even those that seem most intricate and perplexed, shall be made to issue well and to our satisfaction, v. 5, 6. (1.) The duty is very easy; and, if we do it aright, it will make us easy: Commit thy way unto the Lord; roll thy way upon the Lord (so the margin reads it), Prov. 16:3; Ps. 55:22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, the burden of thy care, 1 Pt. 5:7. We must roll it off ourselves, so as not to afflict and perplex ourselves with thoughts about future events (Mt. 6:25), not to cumber and trouble ourselves either with the contrivance of the means or with expectation of the end, but refer it to God, leave it to him by his wise and good providence to order and dispose of all our concerns as he pleases. Retreat thy way unto the Lord (so the Septuagint), that is, "By prayer spread thy case, and all thy cares about it, before the Lord" (as Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh, Jdg. 11:11), "and then trust in him to bring it to a good issue, with a full satisfaction that all is well that God does." We must do our duty (that must be our care) and then leave the event with God. Sit still, and see how the matter will fall, Ruth 3:18. We must follow Providence, and not force it, subscribe to Infinite Wisdom and not prescribe. (2.) The promise is very sweet. [1.] In general, "He shall bring that to pass, whatever it is, which thou hast committed to him, if not to thy contrivance, yet to thy content. He will find means to extricate thee out of thy straits, to prevent thy fears, and bring about thy purposes, to thy satisfaction." [2.] In particular, "He will take care of thy reputation, and bring thee out of thy difficulties, not only with comfort, but with credit and honour: He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the noon-day." (v. 6), that is, "he shall make it to appear that thou art an honest man, and that is honour enough." First, It is implied that the righteousness and judgment of good people may, for a time, be clouded and eclipsed, either by remarkable rebukes of Providence (Job's great afflictions darkened his righteousness) or by the malicious censures and reproaches of men, who give them bad names which they no way deserve, and lay to their charge things which they know not. Secondly, It is promised that God will, in due time, roll away the reproach they are under, clear up their innocency, and bring forth their righteousness, to their honour, perhaps in this world, at furthest in the great day, Mt. 13:43. Note, If we take care to keep a good conscience, we may leave it to God to take care of our good name.

Friday, March 05, 2021

John 10:9 -

"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."

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Christ is the door of the sheep (v. 9): By me (di emou—through me as the door) if any man enter into the sheepfold, as one of the flock, he shall be saved; shall not only by safe from thieves and robbers, but he shall be happy, he shall go in and out. Here are, First, Plain directions how to come into the fold: we must come in by Jesus Christ as the door. By faith in him, as the great Mediator between God and man, we come into covenant and communion with God. There is no entering into God's church but by coming into Christ's church; nor are any looked upon as members of the kingdom of God among men but those that are willing to submit to the grace and government of the Redeemer. We must now enter by the door of faith (Acts 14:27), since the door of innocency is shut against us, and that pass become unpassable, Gen. 3:24. Secondly, Precious promises to those who observe this direction. 1. They shall be saved hereafter; this is the privilege of their home. These sheep shall be saved from being distrained and impounded by divine justice for trespass done, satisfaction being made for the damage by their great Shepherd, saved from being a prey to the roaring lion; they shall be for ever happy. 2. In the mean time they shall go in and out and find pasture; this is the privilege of their way. They shall have their conversation in the world by the grace of Christ, shall be in his fold as a man at his own house, where he has free ingress, egress, and regress. True believers are at home in Christ; when they go out, they are not shut out as strangers, but have liberty to come in again; when they come in, they are not shut in as trespassers, but have liberty to go out. They go out to the field in the morning, they come into the fold at night; and in both the Shepherd leads and keeps them, and they find pasture in both: grass in the field, fodder in the fold. In public, in private, they have the word of God to converse with, by which their spiritual life is supported and nourished, and out of which their gracious desires are satisfied; they are replenished with the goodness of God's house.

Sunday, March 07, 2021

Hebrews 8:10c -

"I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people."

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He articles with them to take them into a near and very honorable relation to himself. [1.] He will be to them a God; that is, he will be all that to them, and do all that for them, that God can be and do. Nothing more can be said in a thousand volumes than is comprehended in these few words: I will be a God to them. [2.] They shall be to him a people, to love, honor, observe, and obey him in all things; complying with his cautions, conforming to his commands, comporting with his providences, copying out his example, taking complacency in his favor. This those must do and will do who have God for their God; this they are bound to do as their part of the contract; this they shall do, for God will enable them to do it, as an evidence that he is their God and that they are his people; for it is God himself who first founds the relation, and then fills it up with grace suitable and sufficient, and helps them in their measure to fill it up with love and duty; so that God engages both for himself and them.

Tuesday, March 09, 2021 

2 Corinthians 13:11bc -

"Live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you."

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 He encourages them with the promise of God's presence among them: The God of love and peace shall be with you, v. 11. Note, (1.) God is the God of love and peace. He is the author of peace, and lover of concord. He hath loved us, and is willing to be at peace with us; he commands us to love him, and to be reconciled to him, and also that we love one another, and be at peace among ourselves. (2.) God will be with those who live in love and peace. He will love those who love peace; he will dwell with them here, and they shall dwell with him for ever. Such shall have God's gracious presence here, and be admitted to his glorious presence hereafter.
 

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Psalm 37:9b -

"Those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth."

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Good people have no reason to envy the worldly prosperity of wicked people, nor to grieve or be uneasy at it, (1.) Because the prosperity of the wicked will soon be at an end (v. 9): Evil-doers shall be cut off by some sudden stroke of divine justice in the midst of their prosperity; what they have got by sin will not only flow away from them (Job 20:28), but they shall be carried away with it. See the end of these men (Ps. 73:17), how dear their ill-got gain will cost them, and you will be far from envying them or from being willing to espouse their lot, for better, for worse. Their ruin is sure, and it is very near (v. 10): Yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be what they now are; they are brought into desolation in a moment, Ps. 73:19. Have a little patience, for the Judge stands before the door, Jam. 5:8, 9. Moderate your passion, for the Lord is at hand, Phil. 4:5. And when their ruin comes it will be an utter ruin; he and his shall be extirpated; the day that comes shall leave him neither root nor branch (Mal. 4:1): Thou shalt diligently consider his place, where but the other day he made a mighty figure, but it shall not be, you will not find it; he shall leave nothing valuable, nothing honourable, behind. him. To the same purport (v. 20), The wicked shall perish; their death is their perdition, because it is the termination of all their joy and a passage to endless misery. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; but undone, for ever undone, are the dead that die in their sins. The wicked are the enemies of the Lord; such those make themselves who will not have him to reign over them, and as such he will reckon with them: They shall consume as the fat of lambs, they shall consume into smoke. Their prosperity, which gratifies their sensuality, is like the fat of lambs, not solid or substantial, but loose and washy; and, when their ruin comes, they shall fall as sacrifices to the justice of God and be consumed as the fat of the sacrifices was upon the altar, whence it ascended in smoke.

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It is far more important to want what you have then to have what you want.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Isaiah 40:29 -

"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."

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He gives strength and power to his people, and helps them by enabling them to help themselves. He that is the strong God is the strength of Israel. (1.) He can help the weak, v. 29. Many a time he gives power to the faint, to those that are ready to faint away; and to those that have no might he not only gives, but increases strength, as there is more and more occasion for it. Many out of bodily weakness are wonderfully recovered, and made strong, by the providence of God: and many that are feeble in spirit, timorous and faint-hearted, unfit for services and sufferings, are yet strengthened by the grace of God with all might in the inward man. To those who are sensible of their weakness, and ready to acknowledge they have no might, God does in a special manner increase strength; for, when we are weak in ourselves, then are we strong in the Lord. (2.) He will help the willing, will help those who, in a humble dependence upon him, help themselves, and will do well for those who do their best.

Monday, March 15, 2021

Psalm 27:5c -

"He shall set me up upon a rock."

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Two things he will be confident of:-1. That he shall be safe. "If God is my salvation, in the time of trouble he shall hide me; he shall set me out of danger and above the fear of it." God will not only find out a shelter for his people in distress (as he did Jer. 36:26), but he will himself be their hiding-place, Ps. 32:7. His providence will, it may be, keep them safe; at least his grace will make them easy. His name is the strong tower into which by faith they run, Prov. 18:10. "He shall hide me, not in the strongholds of En-gedi (1 Sa. 23:29), but in the secret of his tabernacle." The gracious presence of God, his power, his promise, his readiness to hear prayer, the witness of his Spirit in the hearts of his people—these are the secret of his tabernacle, and in these the saints find cause for that holy security and serenity of mind in which they dwell at ease. This sets them upon a rock which will not sink under them, but on which they find firm footing for their hopes; nay, it sets them up upon a rock on high, where the raging threatening billows of a stormy sea cannot touch them; it is a rock that is higher than we, Ps. 61:2. 2. That he shall be victorious (v. 6): "Now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies, not only so as that they cannot reach it with their darts, but so as that I shall be exalted to bear rule over them." David here, by faith in the promise of God, triumphs before the victory, and is as sure, not only of the laurel, but of the crown, as if it were already upon his head.
 

One must ask themselves....If God is for you, who could possibly be against you?

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 (Happy St. Patrick's Day)

Job 41:22b -

"Sorrow is turned into joy before him."

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Sorrow rejoices (or rides in triumph) before him, for he makes terrible work wherever he comes. Or, Those storms which are the sorrow of others are his joys; what is tossing to others is dancing to him.

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Remember when everything seems to be going wrong, if you are in Him, All things work together for good.  It is sometimes very difficult to see the good that is in the works but, we must trust, persevere, and endure and we will see the fruit.

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Daily Humor: "Why doesn't Jesus have a beard like the rest of us?" John asked.

"Because," Peter replied, "Jesus shaves."

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Who was St. Patrick?  Most exact details of his life are uncertain.  He was born between the years of 372 and 390, probably near what is today, Glasgow, Scotland.  His parents were leaders of the Christian community in a village not yet found, Bannaverm Taburniae.  Patrick didn't take Christianity seriously and just enjoyed having fun with his friends.  Then, one day when he was about sixteen, he was amusing (muse means thought or to think, so A-muse means without thought or thinking, just like an amusement park) himself near the sea when Irish pirates captured him. They sold him as a slave to an Irish chieftain named Milchu. What was his job of enslavement? To care for the chief's sheep. Alone in the fields with the sheep, Patrick remembered how his parents talked of Christianity, he accepted it as his own and later wrote:  "I was sixteen years old and knew not the true God; but in that strange land the Lord opened my unbelieving eyes, and although late I called my sins to mind, and was converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God, who regarded my estate, had pity on my youth and ignorance, and consoled me as a father consoles his children...The love of God increased more and more in me with faith and the fear of His name. The Spirit urged me to such a degree that I poured forth as many as a hundred prayers in one day. And even during the night, in the forests and on the mountains where I kept my flock, the rain, and snow, and suffering which I endured, excited me to seek after God..."   Six years later, Patrick managed to escape and return to his family. He had a dream in which he saw Irish children pleading with him to bring the Gospel to them. "O holy youth, come back to Erin, and walk once more amongst us." His heart longed to return to his former captors and share with them the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He trained for the ministry and returned to Ireland where, despite fierce opposition, he spread the story of Jesus among the pagan tribes in the Irish language he learned while a slave. During his 29 years as a missionary, Patrick baptized over 120,000 Irishmen, and established over 300 Churches.  His glorification of God even gave rise to the legend that he drove the snakes out of Ireland.  Many versions of the tale exist, including his standing atop a cliff using a wooden staff to drive the snakes into the sea.  But Patrick's ministry was nonetheless effective as he transformed a nation of idol worshippers by baptizing the masses and their leaders in the name of God.  St. Patrick died of March 17, 461 in Ireland.  It's been recorded that his favorite color was blue, he wore it all the time, yet green became the choice for celebration of St. Patrick's Day since it's now the official color of Ireland.

Friday, March 19, 2021

Song of Solomon 8:7ab -

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."

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Love is a valiant victorious passion. Holy love is so; the reigning love of God in the soul is constant and firm, and will not be drawn off from him either by fair means or foul, by life or death Rom. 8:38. [1.] Death, and all its terrors, will not frighten a believer from loving Christ: Many waters, though they will quench fire, cannot quench this love, no, nor the floods drown it, v. 7. The noise of these waters will strike no terror upon it; let them do their worst, Christ shall still be the best beloved. The overflowing of these waters will strike no damp upon it, but it will enable a man to rejoice in tribulation. Though he slay me, I will love him and trust in him. No waters could quench Christ's love to us, nor any floods drown it; he waded through the greatest difficulties, even seas of blood. Love sat king upon the floods; let nothing then abate our love to him. [2.] Life, and all its comforts, will not entice a believer from loving Christ: If a man could hire him with all the substance of his house, to take his love off from Christ and set it upon the world and the flesh again, he would reject the proposal with the utmost disdain; as Christ, when the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them were offered him, to buy him off from his undertaking, said, Get thee hence, Satan. It would utterly be contemned. Offer those things to those that know no better. Love will enable us to repel and triumph over temptations from the smiles of the world, as much as from its frowns. Some give this sense of it: If a man would give all the substance of his house to Christ, as an equivalent instead of love, to excuse it, it would be contemned. He seeks not ours, but us, the heart, not the wealth. If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not love, it is nothing, 1 Co. 13:1. Thus believers stand affected to Christ: the gifts of his providence cannot satisfy them without the assurances of his love.

 

It is better to have loved and lost then to not have loved.  There are many forms of love; sibling love, parental love, matrimonial love, friendship love, etc.  The love of Jesus surpasses all worldly love.  If you cannot love all humans, that you can see, how can you love God, whom you cannot see?  "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." John 20:29

 

Daily Humor:  How do we know Jesus was a sharp dresser?

He was "found 'in fashion' as a man."  Philippians 2:8

 

This day in history: a scary quote made by Napoleon Bonaparte -"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." Look around you, look to see how evil is changing and attempting to change, historical events. History is not there to like or dislike, history is there to learn from. Those that are not versed in history are condemned to repeat it.  When you see evil and are silent, your silence is acceptance. "Never hold your peace." - quote from Erick Stakelbeck, where you can get up to date news from Israel and the middle east from the Watchman Newscast on YouTube.
 

Saturday, March 20, 2021 - Happy First Day of Spring

Psalm 18:17a -

"He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me."

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The greater the difficulties are that lie in the way of deliverance the more glorious the deliverance is. For the rescuing of David, the waters were to be divided till the very channels were seen; the earth was to be cloven till the very foundations of it were discovered, v. 15. There were waters deep and many, waters out of which he was to be drawn (v. 16), as Moses, who had his name from being drawn out of the water literally, as David was figuratively. His enemies were strong, and they hated him; had he been left to himself, they would have been too strong for him, v. 17. And they were too quick for him; for they prevented him in the day of his calamity, v. 18. But, in the midst of his troubles, the Lord was his stay, so that he did not sink. Note, God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will sustain them and bear them up under their troubles in the mean time.

 

There is absolutely nothing that can stand in the way of Gods Will and perfect Plan. God will protect his children and promote his Will. A quick answer to the question: "How do I know I am doing what God wants?"... Find a need that you can fill and fill it, like: volunteering at a food pantry or some ministry, donations: monetary or otherwise, doing good deeds, edifying brothers and sisters in Christ, etc...

 

Daily Humor: Why couldn't Jonah trust the ocean?

Because he knew there was something fishy about it.

 

A storm of events leading to murder and WWII:

1. Orders Issued For Creation Of Dachau Concentration Camp By Heinrich Himmler

German task force officer Heinrich Himmler issued orders for creating a concentration camp at Dachau. Theodor Eicke was named commandant of the camp where as many as 32,000 deaths were documented.

2. Italy’s New Peace Plan Being Discussed With France

In 1933 a new plan for peace was being initiated by the European nations. English premier Ramsay MacDonald reached France on March 20 along with Italian leader Benito Mussolini to convince France into accepting the treaty.

3. Giuseppe Zangara was the man behind the shots fired during a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President-elect. While many speculate that the original target was Roosevelt he escaped unhurt while politician Anton Cermak and four others lost their lives. Zangara spent ten days in the death row before being subjected to the electric chair on March 20, 1933. The assassin’s final words were, "Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Push the button! Go ahead, push the button!", and he was apparently disappointed that there would be no camera crew during his execution.

Monday, March 22, 2021

Mark 8:35b -

"Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it."

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 They must not be solicitous, no, not for the life of the body, when they cannot keep it without quitting Christ, v. 35. Are we invited by the words and works of Christ to follow him? Let us sit down, and count the cost, whether we can prefer our advantages by Christ before life itself, whether we can bear to think of losing our life for Christ's sake and the gospel's. When the devil is drawing away disciples and servants after him, he conceals the worst of it, tells them only of the pleasure, but nothing of the peril, of his service; Ye shall not surely die; but what there is of trouble and danger in the service of Christ, he tells us of it before, tells us we shall suffer, perhaps we shall die, in the cause; and represents the discouragements not less, but greater, than commonly they prove, that it may appear he deals fairly with us, and is not afraid that we should know the worst; because the advantages of his service abundantly suffice to balance the discouragements, if we will but impartially set the one over against the other. In short; we must not dread the loss of our lives, provided it be in the cause of Christ (v. 35); Whosoever will save his life, by declining Christ, and refusing to come to him, or by disowning and denying him after he has in profession come to Christ, he shall lose it, shall lose the comfort of his natural life, the root and fountain of his spiritual life, and all his hopes of eternal life; such a bad bargain will he make for himself. But whosoever shall lose his life, shall be truly willing to lose it, shall venture it, shall lay it down when he cannot keep it without denying Christ, he shall save it, he shall be an unspeakable gainer; for the loss of his life shall be made up to him in a better life. It is looked upon to be some kind of recompence to those who lose their lives in the service of their prince and country, to have their memories honoured and their families provided for; but what is that to the recompence which Christ makes in eternal life to all that

die for him?

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Of all the difficulties through life on this planet; doing the right thing, being a follower of Christ, being a true Bible believing Christian and doing all the things we are supposed to do according to the teachings of Jesus, is quite possibly the most difficult of all tasks.  Why? Because satan makes all the evil deeds appear to be pleasurable and easily accomplished but, to live for the flesh and not the spirit, will surely lead to an eternity of torment.  Jesus said, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." I am sure you have heard many times through your life that "If everyone jumped from a bridge, would you?". Just because the majority of people do something, or believe something, does that make it so or right?  Of course not. The 80 or 100 years of life on this planet is only a blink of an eye compared to eternity. I implore you to seek the way of Jesus and learn of his teachings, as when death knocks at your door, it shall be too late. One thing is for certain, none of us get out of here alive, we all have the same end but two very different destinations.

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Daily Humor:  What were Lot's last words to his wife?

Is someone following us?  (That's a bad one, I know, but it's still humorous.)

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A lengthy read, but very informative and those of us that live in Virginia have seen most of these names but don't know the history, enjoy: 

On March 22, 1622, Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in eastern Virginia killed around 347 English colonists, nearly a quarter of the entire English population in Virginia. This well-planned, coordinated attack, which the English called a "great massacre," resulted from numerous causes and had a lasting impact on the direction of English-Indian relations in colonial America. Ever since the Virginia Company established the Jamestown colony in 1607, the settlers had sought a

moneymaking product that could be extracted from the Virginia environment. By 1613 John Rolfe (who married Pocahontas in 1614) had developed a new strain of tobacco that gave the colony its first real source of revenue and committed Virginia to a farming and plantation economy. Jamestown colonists quickly expanded their settlements to grow tobacco, but tobacco leached nutrients out of unfertilized soil in just a few years, requiring the farmers to constantly acquire and till new lands. The Virginia colonists suddenly became land hungry, putting increasing pressure on the Powhatans to sell or give up their land. In the opinion of the English, so-called empty or unfarmed land should be converted to agricultural uses, whereas the Powhatans viewed wooded and unoccupied areas around their villages as crucial hunting areas and buffer zones between villages.

Around 1616, the aging Chief Powhatan was replaced by two of his maternal brothers, Itoyatan and Opechancanough. Powhatan had committed to living at peace with the English, particularly after the capture of his daughter Pocahontas and her marriage to Rolfe in 1614, but his successors viewed the English warily and it was Opechancanough who planned and led the 1622 attack (he was also the war leader who captured Captain John Smith in December 1607, resulting in Smith's metaphorical adoption by the Powhatans via his rescue by Pocahontas).

In 1620, Virginia Company officials, especially George Thorpe, began pressuring the Powhatans to send some of their children to be educated among the colonists, a request the Powhatans found intolerable. Moreover, imported diseases such as smallpox had killed Powhatans by the dozens in the 1610s and placed stress on their traditional culture when the deaths could not be prevented by conventional healing methods. Finally, just two weeks before the 1622 attack, English settlers killed a leading Powhatan warrior and shaman named Nemattanew, providing the spark needed to inflame an increasingly edgy situation.

Scholars debate what Opechancanough and the Powhatans intended with their one-day attack. Some argue the Powhatans hoped to remove the English presence from Virginia but failed to follow up on their initial military success and eventually lost the fight to keep Virginia. It is more likely, however, that the Powhatans never planned to exterminate every English person and instead meant to send a powerful warning that the English needed to recognize Powhatan superiority, behave appropriately, and restrict their settlements to the original Jamestown area. This interpretation is supported by the actions of Opechancanough who sent a messenger to warn Jamestown of the attack and concentrated hostilities on the outlying English settlements. The English failed to heed the warning, however, and instead redoubled their efforts to secure a foothold in Virginia and gain permanent occupation of Powhatan lands.

Many of the surviving English settlers welcomed the attack as a justification for assaulting the Powhatans and driving them from their lands. Edward Waterhouse wrote after the attack, "Our hands, which before were tied with gentleness and fair usage, are now set at liberty by the treacherous violence of the savages … So that we … may now by right of war, and law of nations, invade the country, and destroy them who sought to destroy us … Their cleared grounds in all their villages … shall be inhabited by us" (Gleach, p.159). Acquiring land by right of conquest had guided European relations with Indians since Columbus first encountered the Americas, but the aftermath of the 1622 attack was the first time the English employed the notion in North America. Open warfare lasted ten years in Virginia before an uneasy truce kept the peace for over a decade.

The most important immediate impact of the 1622 attack was that in 1624 the Virginia Company lost title over the colony to the crown of England, making Virginia a royal colony. From that time onward, imperial concerns intruded into Virginia relations with Native Americans and affected the policies the Virginia government pursued. Warfare and diseases caused the Powhatan population to continue to drop from a high of around 25,000 in 1607 to a few thousand by the 1630s, and many of their villages were abandoned. On April 18, 1644, the Powhatans, still under the leadership of the elderly Opechancanough, attacked again, killing over 400 English colonists. That war ended within two years, Opechancanough died in a Jamestown jail cell, and Powhatan dominance in Virginia ended.

For the English to term the 1622 attack a "massacre" meant that their subsequent decade-long war against the Powhatan "savages" was an act of justifiable retribution, as Edward Waterhouse suggested. One group's "massacre" is often another group's justifiable retribution or "freedom fight," however; and the subjective meaning of "massacre" to make one party seem innocent in an act of violence should be examined critically. The use of the term "massacre" by Euro-Americans to describe attacks by Native Americans throughout American history automatically places the blame for such violence on Native Americans, while relinquishing Europeans or Americans of their own culpability. According to the standard narrative of American history that impacted decision making from 1622 onward, only one side in this great cultural encounter committed "massacres" whereas the other merely responded with violence out of self-defense. So-called justifiable vengeance contributed to a still-prevalent view by Americans that they only attacked other peoples when provoked and were always reasonable with their response.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Matthew 4:6b -

"He shall give his angels charge concerning thee."

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Observe, The Devil said, Cast thyself down. The Devil could not cast him down, though a little thing would have done it, from the top of a spire. Note, The power of Satan is a limited power; hitherto he shall come, and no further. Yet, if the Devil had cast him down, he had not gained his point; that had been his suffering only, not his sin. Note, Whatever real mischief is done us, it is of our own doing; the Devil can but persuade, he cannot compel; he can but say, Cast thyself down; he cannot cast us down. Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and not forced, but enticed. Therefore let us not hurt ourselves, and then, blessed be God, no one else can hurt us, Prov. 9:12. How he backed this motion with a scripture; For it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee. But is Saul also among the prophets? Is Satan so well versed in scripture, as to be able to quote it so readily? It seems, he is. Note, It is possible for a man to have his head full of scripture-notions, and his mouth full of scripture-expressions, while his heart is full of reigning enmity to God and all goodness. The knowledge which the devils have of the scripture, increases both their mischievousness and their torment. Never did the devil speak with more vexation to himself, than when he said to Christ, I know thee who thou art. The devil would persuade Christ to throw himself down, hoping that he would be his own murderer, and that there would be an end of him and his undertaking, which he looked upon with a jealous eye; to encourage him to do it, he tells them, that there was no danger, that the good angels would protect him, for so was the promise (Ps. 91:11), He shall give his angels charge over thee. In this quotation,
First, There was something right. It is true, there is such a promise of the ministration of the angels, for the protection of the saints. The devil knows it by experience; for he finds his attempts against them fruitless, and he frets and rages at it, as he did at the hedge about Job, which he speaks of so sensibly, Job 1:10. He was also right in applying it to Christ, for to him all the promises of the protection of the saints primarily and eminently belong, and to them, in and through him. That promise, that not a bone of theirs shall be broken (Ps. 34:20), was fulfilled in Christ, Jn. 19:36. The angels guard the saints for Christ's sake, Rev. 7:5, 11.
Secondly, There was a great deal wrong in it; and perhaps the devil had a particular spite against this promise, and perverted it, because it often stood in his way, and baffled his mischievous designs against the saints. See here, 1. How he misquoted it; and that was bad. The promise is, They shall keep thee; but how? In all thy ways; not otherwise; if we go out of our way, out of the way of our duty, we forfeit the promise, and put ourselves out of God's protection. Now this word made against the tempter, and therefore he industriously left it out. If Christ had cast himself down, he had been out of his way, for he had no call so to expose himself. It is good for us upon all occasions to consult the scriptures themselves, and not to take things upon trust, that we may not be imposed upon by those that maim and mangle the word of God; we must do as the noble Bereans, who searched the scriptures daily. 2. How he misapplied it; and that was worse. Scripture is abused when it is pressed to patronize sin; and when men thus wrest it to their own temptation, they do it to their own destruction 2 Pt. 3:16. This promise is firm, and stands good; but the devil made an ill use of it, when he used it as an encouragement to presume upon the divine care. Note, It is no new thing for the grace of God to be turned into wantonness; and for men to take encouragement in sin from the discoveries of God's good will to sinners. But shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? throw ourselves down, that the angels may bear us up? God forbid.

 

Always keep your eyes, heart and mind on the prize, which is spending eternity in the presence of God our Heavenly Father. If your focus is on Him at all times the worries and temptations of this world will get easier to rebuke. That doesn't mean that the devil will stop, it means that you will be stronger, as in Romans 8:31 "If God is for us, who can be against us?". 

 

Daily Humor: What was Isaac's response to Rebekah when she mentioned she served dinner to his brother Edom?

Did he eat 'em?

 

On this day March 25, 1865 a significant story unfolds of the Confederate Army laying siege on Fort Stedman in Petersburg, VA.  A story that may repeat itself, although if it were to happen again, the end will be quite different this time.  Read the whole intriguing story here: America's Civil War: Pre-dawn Assault on Fort Stedman (historynet.com)

 

Answer to yesterdays trivia: An ass (Numbers 22:28).... back in Biblical times it was considered a miracle when an ass spoke, today it is commonplace in Washington, DC.

 

Todays Trivia: Who was the only person mentioned as being buried in coffin?

A. David

B. Moses

C. Samuel

D. Joseph

E. All of the above
 

Friday, March 26, 2021

Malachi 4:2a -

"Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings."

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 In both Christ is a rejoicing light to those who serve him faithfully, to those who fear his name and give him the glory due to it (v. 2), who stand in awe of that name of his which the wicked profane and trample upon. Here are mercy and comfort kept in store for all those who fear the Lord and think on his name. Observe; Whence this mercy and comfort shall flow to them: To you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, with healing in his wings. The day that comes, as it will be a stormy day to the wicked, a day in which God will rain upon them fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest, as he did on Sodom (Ps. 11:6), a day of clouds and thick darkness (Amos 5:18, 20), so it will be a fair and bright day to those who fear God, and reviving as the rising sun is to the earth; and particular notice is taken of the rising of the sun upon Zoar when that was mercifully distinguished from the cities of the plain, which the fire consumed; see Gen. 19:23. So to those that fear God is comfort spoken. When the hearts of others fail for fear let them lift up their heads for joy, for their redemption draws nigh, Lu. 21:28. But by the Sun of righteousness here we are certainly to understand Jesus Christ, who would undertake to secure the believing remnant, in the day of the general destruction of the Jews, from falling with the rest, and to comfort them in that day of distress and perplexity with his consolations; he directed those that were in Judea to flee to the mountains (Mt. 24:16), and they did so, and were all safe and easy in Pella. But it is to be applied more generally, (1.) To the coming of Christ in the flesh to seek and save those that were lost; then the Sun of righteousness arose upon this dark world. Christ is the light of the world, the true light, the great light that makes day and rules the day (Jn. 8:12), as the sun. He is the light of men (Jn. 1:4), is to men's souls as the sun is to the visible world, which without the sun would be a dungeon; so would mankind be darkness itself without the light of the glory of God shining in the face of Christ. Christ is the Sun that has light in himself, and is the fountain of light (Ps. 19:4-6); he is the Sun of righteousness, for he is himself a righteous Saviour. Righteousness is both the light and the heat of this Sun; the word of his righteousness is so; it guides, instructs, and quickens; so is the everlasting righteousness he has brought in. He is made of God to us righteousness; he is the Lord our righteousness, and therefore is fitly called the Sun of righteousness. Through him we are justified and sanctified, and so are brought to see light. This Sun of righteousness, in the fulness of time, arose upon the world, and with him light came into the world (Jn. 3:19), a great light, Mt. 4:16. In him the day-spring from on high visited us, to give light to those that sit in darkness, Lu. 1:78, 79. Righteousness sometimes signifies mercy or benignity, and it was in Christ that the tender mercy of our God visited us. (2.) It is applicable to the graces and comforts of the Holy Spirit, brought into the souls of men. Grotius understands it of Christ's giving the Spirit to those that are his, to shine in their hearts, and to be a comforter to them, a sun and a shield. Those that are possessed and governed by a holy fear of God and a dread of his majesty shall have his love also shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost; and then the sun may be said to arise there, and to bring both a delightful day and a fruitful spring along with it. (3.) Christ's second coming will be a glorious and welcome sun-rising to all that fear his name; it will be that morning of the resurrection in which the upright shall have dominion, Ps. 49:14. That day which to the wicked will burn as an oven will to the righteous be bright as the morning; and it is what they wait for, more than those that wait for the morning.
What this mercy and comfort shall bring to them: He shall arise with healing under his wings, or in his rays or beams, which are as the wings of the sun. Christ came, as the sun, to bring not only light to a dark world, but health to a diseased distempered world. The Jews (says Dr. Pocock) have a proverbial saying, As the sun riseth, infirmities decrease; the flowers which drooped and languished all night revive in the morning. Christ came into the world to be the great physician, yea, and the great medicine too, both the balm in Gilead and the physician there. When he was upon earth, he went about as the sun in his circuit, doing this good; he healed all manner of sicknesses and diseases among the people; he healed by wholesale, as the sun does. He shall arise with healing in his skirts; so some read it, and they apply it to the story of the woman's touching the hem of his garment, and being thereby made whole, and his finding that virtue went out of him, Mk. 5:28-30. But his healing bodily diseases was a specimen of his great design in coming into the world to heal the diseases of men's souls, and to put them into a good state of health, that they may serve and enjoy both God and themselves.

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Patience and kindness are two of the most important attributes that a person should have.  We should allow God to make recompense for the trespass of others and show kindness to all peoples.

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Daily Humor: Whose coleslaw did Pharaoh dislike?

Moses's law.

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On this day March 26, 1979:

In a ceremony at the White House, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties.

Less than two years earlier, in an unprecedented move for an Arab leader, Sadat traveled to Jerusalem, Israel, to seek a permanent peace settlement with Egypt’s Jewish neighbor after decades of conflict. Sadat’s visit, in which he met with Begin and spoke before Israel’s parliament, was met with outrage in most of the Arab world. Despite criticism from Egypt’s regional allies, Sadat continued to pursue peace with Begin, and in September 1978 the two leaders met again in the United States, where they negotiated an agreement with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland. The Camp David Accords, the first peace agreement between the state of Israel and one of its Arab neighbors, laid the groundwork for diplomatic and commercial relations. Seven months later, a formal peace treaty was signed.

For their achievement, Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Sadat’s peace efforts were not so highly acclaimed in the Arab world–Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and on October 6, 1981, Muslim extremists assassinated Sadat in Cairo. Nevertheless, the peace process continued without Sadat, and in 1982 Egypt formally established diplomatic relations with Israel.

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Answer to yesterdays trivia: D. Joseph (Gen. 50:26)

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Todays trivia: What was Neheiah's profession?

A. Cup Bearer

B. Soldier

C. Priest

D. Shepherd

E. IT Infrastructure Engineer

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Acts 2:17a -

"I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh."

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The text itself that Peter quotes, v. 17-21. It refers to the last days, the times of the gospel, which are called the last days because the dispensation of God's kingdom among men, which the gospel sets up, is the last dispensation of divine grace, and we are to look for no other than the continuation of this to the end of time. Or, in the last days, that is, a great while after the ceasing of prophecy in the Old-Testament church. Or, in the days immediately preceding the destruction of the Jewish nation, in the last days of that people, just before that great and notable day of the Lord spoken of, v. 20. "It was prophesied of and promised, and therefore you ought to expect it, and not to be surprised at it; to desire it, and bid it welcome, and not to dispute it, as not worth taking notice of." The apostle quotes the whole paragraph, for it is good to take scripture entire; now it was foretold,
That there should be a more plentiful and extensive effusion of the Spirit of grace from on high than had ever yet been. The prophets of the Old Testament had been filled with the Holy Ghost, and it was said of the people of Israel that God gave them his good Spirit to instruct them, Neb. 9:20. But now the Spirit shall be poured out, not only upon the Jews, but upon all flesh, Gentiles as well as Jews, though yet Peter himself did not understand it so, as appears, ch. 11:17. Or, upon all flesh, that is, upon some of all ranks and conditions of men. The Jewish doctors taught that the Spirit came only upon wise and rich men, and such as were of the seed of Israel; but God will not tie himself to their rules.

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Our God is not just the God of Israel and the Jews, but of all peoples. Eleven times through the Bible it is stated 'to the Jews first'.  This does not mean Jews have a higher ranking, it primarily means historically.

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Daily Humor: Did you know there was pole vaulting in the Bible?

Yeah, Jesus cleared the temple.

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The Great New Orleans Fire of March 21, 1788. The Good Friday fire began about 1:30 p.m. at the home of Army Treasurer Don Vincente Jose Nuñez, 619 Chartres Street, corner of Toulouse, less than a block from Jackson Square (Plaza de Armas). Because the fire started on Good Friday, priests refused to allow church bells to be rung as a fire alarm. Within five hours it had consumed almost the entire city as it was fed by a strong wind from the southeast. The fire destroyed virtually all major buildings in the then-city (now French Quarter), including the church, municipal building, army barracks, armory, and jail. Colonial Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró set up tents for the homeless.

The fire area stretched between Dauphine Street and the Mississippi River and between Conti Street in the south and St. Philip Street in the north. It spared the riverfront buildings including the Customs House, the tobacco warehouses, the Governor's Building, the Royal Hospital, and the Ursuline Convent.

Colonial officials were to replace the wooden buildings with masonry structures which had courtyards, thick brick walls, arcades, and wrought iron balconies. Among the new buildings were the central New Orleans (now Jackson Square) fixtures of St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, and the Presbytere. The funds and supervision for the Cathedral and the Cabildo were provided by Don Andres Almonaster y Rojas. The Cabildo burned in the 1794 fire and had to be reconstructed. The Presbytere was built on a somewhat later basis, and Almonaster died before it could be completed.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Matthew 6:14 -

"If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."

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In a promise. If ye forgive, your heavenly Father will also forgive. Not as if this were the only condition required; there must be repentance and faith, and new obedience; but as where other graces are in truth, there will be this, so this will be a good evidence of the sincerity of our other graces. He that relents toward his brother, thereby shows that he repents toward his God. Those which in the prayer are called debts, are here called trespasses, debts of injury, wrongs done to us in our bodies, goods, or reputation: trespasses is an extenuating term for offences, paraptoµmata—stumbles, slips, falls. Note, It is a good evidence, and a good help of our forgiving others, to call the injuries done us by a mollifying, excusing name. Call them not treasons, but trespasses; not wilful injuries, but casual inadvertencies; peradventure it was an oversight (Gen. 43:12), therefore make the best of it. We must forgive, as we hope to be forgiven; and therefore must not only bear no malice, nor mediate revenge, but must not upbraid our brother with the injuries he has done us, nor rejoice in any hurt that befals him, but must be ready to help him and do him good, and if he repent and desire to be friends again, we must be free and familiar with him, as before.

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Forgiveness is different from forgetting. Our heavenly Father will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more, Jeremiah 31:34.  If a person does you wrong, you are instructed to forgive but let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, 2 Thessalonians 2:3.  The main focus of that scripture is concerning the second coming of Christ but, it is applicable to all deception as all deception is lies and sinful misdirection, as a person who is deceiving you is a man of sin and not acting as your brother.  

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Daily Humor:  Who is the first Comedian on Earth?

God!  (Gen. 21:6 - and Sarah said, 'God had made me to laugh...')

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This day of the 23rd of March is a very important day in the History of the United States of America, on this day Patrick Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act 1765 and is best remembered for his "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is regarded as one of the most influential champions of Republicanism and an enthusiastic promoter of the American Revolution and its fight for independence. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. After the Revolution, Henry was a leader of the anti-federalists in Virginia. He opposed the United States Constitution, fearing that it endangered the rights of the States as well as the freedoms of individuals; he helped gain adoption of the Bill of Rights. By 1798 he supported President John Adams and the Federalists. He denounced passage of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions as he feared the social unrest and widespread executions that had followed the increasing radicalism of the French Revolution.

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Because of the significance and importance I must include a second very important event of the 23rd of March which is The Battle of Okinawa which was one of the major battles of the Pacific theater of World War II. The island of Okinawa was strategically important to the Allies as they intended to use the airfields for the impending invasion of mainland Japan, Operation Downfall. The US naval task force assembled for the battle began bombing Okinawa on March 23, 1945, ahead of the amphibious invasion on April 1, 1945, which was the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War. Okinawa was devastated by the battle. The fighting was extremely fierce on both sides, and Japan used numerous kamikaze attacks to try and sink Allied naval vessels, which assembled in the hundreds for the battle. Okinawa's pre-battle population was about 300,000; nearly 150,000 were killed, committed suicide or went missing. The Americans eventually captured the island, losing between 14-20,000 soldiers, while Japan lost between 77-110,000 dead. Okinawa would remain occupied by the United States until 1972, and the continued presence of an American military base on the island is a center of controversy in Japan.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Isaiah 58:9a -

"Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer."

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As, on the one hand, he that shuts his ears to the cry of the poor shall himself cry and God will not hear him; so, on the other hand, he that is liberal to the poor, his prayers shall come up with his alms for a memorial before God, as Cornelius's did (Acts 10:4): "Then shalt thou call, on thy fast-days, which ought to be days of prayer, and the Lord shall answer, shall give thee the things thou callest to him for; thou shalt cry when thou art in any distress or sudden fright, and he shall say, Here I am." This is a very condescending expression of God's readiness to hear prayer. When God calls to us by his word it becomes us to say, Here we are; what saith our Lord unto his servants? But that God should say to us, Behold me, here I am, is strange. When we cry to him, as if he were at a distance, he will let us know that he is near, even at our right hand, nearer than we thought he was. It is I, be not afraid. When danger is near our protector is nearer, a very present help. "Here I am, ready to give you what you want, and do for you what you desire; what have you to say to me?" God is attentive to the prayers of the upright, Ps. 130:2. No sooner do they call to him than he answers, Ready, ready. Wherever they are praying, God says, "Here I am hearing; I am in the midst of you." He is nigh unto them in all things, Deu. 4:7. 6. God will direct them in all difficult and doubtful cases (v. 11): The Lord shall guide thee continually. While we are here, in the wilderness of this world, we have need of continual direction from heaven; for, if at any time we be left to ourselves, we shall certainly miss our way; and therefore it is to those who are good in God's sight that he gives the wisdom which in all cases is profitable to direct, and he will be to them instead of eyes, Eccl. 2:26.

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It is easy to just take one Scripture out of context and misdirect it to what an individual desires for it to mean.  We must read the entire chapter and sometimes the entire book or even the entire Bible to grasp the full meaning of what is being said.  A main theme through the Bible is moderation coupled with love, compassion, forgiveness and understanding.  Being a Christian isn't a destination but a journey through this life to get others to accept the free gift of salvation that our God has so selflessly given to us through his Son Jesus.  Being a Christian involves faith with works that show our faith.  Giving does not always involve items of monetary value, in fact, sometimes giving of ones time or skills is more valuable.  Teach the young of what you know of Jesus, plant the seed of knowledge and the Holy Spirit will water that seed.  Show an act of kindness from the love of Jesus to as many people as you can.  You can do this through buying someone a meal or a phone call or a text message or even a simple smile and sometimes just holding your tongue.  May you be blessed overly for blessing others.  When this life on this planet makes you feel blue remember your Heavenly Father loves you completely and unconditionally and will forgive all your trespasses, all you have to do is ask.

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Daily humor: What is the hardest chapter in the Bible?

'For-Micah'.... 

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You may ask yourself why I chose this article as significant for this day in history...but, I assure you that the unfolding events surrounding this globalist run at a 'One World Government' through disinformation and fear mongering, will reveal its importance in the coming weeks or months.

Robert Koch concentrated his efforts on the study of tuberculosis, with the aim of isolating its cause. Although it was suspected that tuberculosis was caused by an infectious agent, the organism had not yet been isolated and identified. By modifying the method of staining, Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus and established its presence in the tissues of animals and humans suffering from the disease. A fresh difficulty arose when for some time it proved impossible to grow the organism in pure culture. But eventually Koch succeeded in isolating the organism in a succession of media and induced tuberculosis in animals by inoculating them with it. Its etiologic role was thereby established. On March 24, 1882, Koch announced before the Physiological Society of Berlin that he had isolated and grown the tubercle bacillus, which he believed to be the cause of all forms of tuberculosis.

Meanwhile, Koch’s work was interrupted by an outbreak of cholera in Egypt and the danger of its transmission to Europe. As a member of a German government commission, Koch went to Egypt to investigate the disease. Although he soon had reason to suspect a particular comma-shaped bacterium (vibrio) as the cause of cholera, the epidemic ended before he was able to confirm his hypothesis. Nevertheless, he raised awareness of amebic dysentery and differentiated two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. Proceeding to India, where cholera is endemic, he completed his task, identifying both the organism responsible for the disease and its transmission via drinking water, food, and clothing.

Resuming his studies of tuberculosis, Koch investigated the effect an injection of dead bacilli had on a person who subsequently received a dose of living bacteria and concluded that he may have discovered a cure for the disease. In his studies he used as the active agent a sterile liquid produced from cultures of the bacillus. However, the liquid, which he named tuberculin (1890), proved disappointing, and sometimes dangerous, as a curative agent. Consequently, its importance as a means of detecting a present or past tubercular state was not immediately recognized (see tuberculin test). Additional work on tuberculosis came later, but, after the seeming debacle of tuberculin, Koch was also occupied with a great variety of investigations into diseases of humans and animals—studies of leprosy, bubonic plague, livestock diseases, and malaria.

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New content (answer will be given the following day):  A daily trivia:

What animal rebuked Balaam when he saw the Angel of the Lord?

Saturday, March 27, 2021

Psalm 127:2b -

"He giveth his beloved sleep."

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For the enriching of a family; this is a work of time and thought, but cannot be effected without the favor of Providence any more than that which is the product of one happy turn: "It is vain for you to rise up early and sit up late, and so to deny yourselves your bodily refreshments, in the eager pursuit of the wealth of the world." Usually, those that rise early do not care for sitting up late, nor can those that sit up late easily persuade themselves to rise early; but there are some so hot upon the world that they will do both, will rob their sleep to pay their cares. And they have as little comfort in their meals as in their rest; they eat the bread of sorrows. It is part of our sentence that we eat our bread in the sweat of our face; but those go further: all their days they eat in darkness, Eccl. 5:17. They are continually fell of care, which embitters their comforts, and makes their lives a burden to them. All this is to get money, and all in vain except God prosper them, for riches are not always to men of understanding, Eccl. 9:11. Those that love God, and are beloved of him, have their minds easy and live very comfortably without this ado. Solomon was called Jedidiah—Beloved of the Lord (2 Sa. 12:25); to him the kingdom was promised, and then it was in vain for Absalom to rise up early, to wheedle the people, and for Adonijah to make such a stir, and to say, I will be king. Solomon sits still, and, being beloved of the Lord, to him he gives sleep and the kingdom too. Note, (1.) Inordinate excessive care about the things of this world is a vain a d fruitless thing. We weary ourselves for vanity if we have it, and often weary ourselves in vain for it, Hag. 1:6, 9. (2.) Bodily sleep is God's gift to his beloved. We owe it to his goodness that our sleep is safe (Ps. 4:8), that it is sweet, Jer. 31:25, 26. God gives us sleep as he gives it to his beloved when with it he gives us grace to lie down in his fear (our souls returning to him and reposing in him as our rest), and when we awake to be still with him and to use the refreshment we have by sleep in his service. He gives his beloved sleep, that is, quietness and contentment of mind, and comfortable enjoyment of what is present and a comfortable expectation of what is to come. Our care must be to keep ourselves in the love of God, and then we may be easy whether we have little or much of this world.

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As a child I often heard from my Grandparents; "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise."  My Grandparents were very Godly people and taught me so many life lessons grounded in Scripture.  Like, "Hard work never did any man harm" and "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" and "Ask God for wisdom and all your years shall be full of joy". If we as a people would repent (repentance is 2 part; 1 to turn from your sin and, 2. to turn towards God) He would hear our prayers and spare the land.  If you are reading this and have doubts about who or how this planet or universe was created, send me an email and I will help you, Scripturally and scientifically, as the Holy Bible is 100% grounded in science and history.

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Daily Humor: What do you get when you mix Holy Water with Exlax?

A religious movement.

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On this day of March 27, I found this gem of Catholic history:

In a war with Venice and their Doge Pietro Gradeningo over political control of Ferrara in Italy, Pope Clement V issued an excommunication of the entire city of Venice on 27 March 1309 – an ecclesiastical penalty that would not be lifted until 17 February 1313.

Clement decreed not only that the Venetians were to be considered outside of the Church but also annulled trade agreements and religious services. When the excommunication failed to convince Venice to accept Papal control of Ferrara, a crusade against Venice would be ordered a few months later.

At this time, ecclesiastical penalties such as excommunication or interdict, the prohibition on the celebration of sacraments in a particular area, were seen as effective means of encouraging a population to persuade its leaders to change their ways and accept papal demands.

Due to the problems caused by the animosity of the papacy and the threats of other Italian city states who wished to take advantage of the pope’s crusade, the citizens of Venice rebelled against their Doge/leader. However, attempts to overthrow the Venetian government failed and contributed to the establishment of the Council of Ten as an emergency, but eventually permanent, government for the city state.

The death of the Doge and willingness of the new Venetian leadership to accept Papal control over Ferrara brought about the lifting of the excommunication. Indeed, when Doge Pietro Gradeningo died religious burials were prohibited by the excommunication and he would be laid in an unmarked grave.

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Answer to yesterdays trivia:  A. Cup Bearer (Neh 13:13)

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Todays Trivia: How did God punish David for his national pride?

A. Famine

B. Chased by enemies

C. Plague

D. None of these

E. Gave him another wife

Sunday, March 28, 2021 - Passover

Proverbs 11:30a -

"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life."

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This shows what great blessings good men are, especially those that are eminently wise, to the places where they live, and therefore how much to be valued. 1. The righteous are as trees of life; the fruits of their piety and charity, their instructions, reproofs, examples, and prayers, their interest in heaven, and their influence upon earth, are like the fruits of that tree, precious and useful, contributing to the support and nourishment of the spiritual life in many; they are the ornaments of paradise, God's church on earth, for whose sake it stands. 2. The wise are something more; they are as trees of knowledge, not forbidden, but commanded knowledge. He that is wise, by communicating his wisdom, wins souls, wins upon them to bring them in love with God and holiness, and so wins them over into the interests of God's kingdom among men. The wise are said to turn many to righteousness, and that is the same with winning souls here, Dan. 12:3. Abraham's proselytes are called the souls that he had gotten, Gen. 12:5. Those that would win souls have need of wisdom to know how to deal with them; and those that do win souls show that they are wise.

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There is so much to learn about ancient Israelis, their traditions based in God, their traditions based in men, their travels and travails, their commitment to God and their shortcomings, their following of Scripture and their turning away.  One area of interest that has struck my curiosity is the traditional Seder meal. There are quite a few sermons that can be taught on this meal. Here is a good site to pick up some interesting facts: What Is a Seder (Passover Meal)? - A quick, one-page overview of the Passover Meal’s steps - Passover (chabad.org) and The Order and Meaning of the Passover Seder (learnreligions.com) I would like to encourage you to strengthen your faith and learn some very interesting history on this Passover tradition. We are beginning to learn of the Seder in our Church, this morning we partook of the Seder, not in its entirety as so much to learn but, have to start somewhere.  I pray learning of this tradition will also be a blessing unto you.

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Daily Humor: Whose the greatest babysitter in the Bible?

David, he rocked Goliath into a very deep sleep.

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On March 28, 1774 an important event leading up to the Revolutionary War.  Will there be events similar that our future generations will read upon to discover why we had to fight for our sovereignty yet again?  Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on March 28, 1774.

The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 crates of tea—nearly $1 million worth in today’s money—into the water to protest the Tea Act.

Passed in response to the Americans’ disobedience, the Coercive Acts included:

The Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid.

The Massachusetts Government Act, which restricted Massachusetts; democratic town meetings and turned the governor’s council into an appointed body.

The Administration of Justice Act, which made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in Massachusetts.

The Quartering Act, which required colonists to house and quarter British troops on demand, including in their private homes as a last resort.

A fifth act, the Quebec Act, which extended freedom of worship to Catholics in Canada, as well as granting Canadians the continuation of their judicial system, was joined with the Coercive Acts in colonial parlance as one of the Intolerable Acts, as the mainly Protestant colonists did not look kindly on the ability of Catholics to worship freely on their borders.

More important than the acts themselves was the colonists’ response to the legislation. Parliament hoped that the acts would cut Boston and New England off from the rest of the colonies and prevent unified resistance to British rule. They expected the rest of the colonies to abandon Bostonians to British martial law. Instead, other colonies rushed to the city’s defense, sending supplies and forming their own Provincial Congresses to discuss British misrule and mobilize resistance to the crown. In September 1774, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and began orchestrating a united resistance to British rule in America.

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Answer to yesterdays trivia: 

C. Plague (2 Sam 24:1)

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Todays trivia: Which of the gospels was written by a doctor?

A. Matthew

B. Mark

C. Luke

D. John

E. Dr. Josephus

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Numbers 14:21 -

"As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord."

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The glorifying of God's name is, in the general, resolved upon, v. 21. It is said, it is sworn, All the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Moses in his prayer had shown a great concern for the glory of God. "Let me alone," says God, "to secure that effectually, and to advance it, by this dispensation." All the world shall see how God hates sin even in his own people, and will reckon for it, and yet how gracious and merciful he is, and how slow to anger. Thus when our Savior prayed, Father, glorify thy name, he was immediately answered, I have glorified it, and will glorify it yet again, Jn. 12:28. Note, Those that sincerely seek God's glory may be sure of what they seek. God having turned this prayer for the glorifying of himself into a promise, we may turn it into praise, in concert with the angels, Isa. 6:3, The earth is full of his glory.

 

A person only needs to look around or even be still and listen, the Glory of the Lord is everywhere and in everything.  Reminds me of the story of the scientist who claimed he could create life.  God scraped up some dirt added some water and viola a human, so the scientist started to gather up some dirt and God said...."Get your own dirt".  The wonders and amazement of Gods creation from the incredibly complex eye of the octopus to the ant "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise." Pvb 6:6.  King Solomon wrote those words over 2,200 years ago, how do you think he knew that all the worker ants are female? The ant doesn't need a supervisor, she knows through instinct what needs done. Another example of Gods Glory are symbiotic relationships like the Yucca plant and the Yucca moth.  Without the Yucca moth, the Yucca plant cannot flower or propagate, the.  How do you think the one could survive until the other showed up? In fact, their relationship is so specialized that each Yucca species is pollinated by only one type of Yucca moth. There are numerous examples of symbiotic relationships all through nature. Evolution has no viable answer for how this came to be.

 

Daily Humor: Who was one of the characters named in the early Christian carols?

Round-John-Virgin

 

On this day of March 30, 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars of gold bullion to acquire 370 million acres, the equivalent of California and Montana combined, which worked out to a little less than two cents an acre, not a bad deal?  
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. Beginning in 1725, when Russian Czar Peter the Great dispatched Vitus Bering to explore the Alaskan coast, Russia had a keen interest in this region, which was rich in natural resources and lightly inhabited. As the United States expanded westward in the early 1800s, Americans soon found themselves in competition with Russian explorers and traders. St. Petersburg, however, lacked the financial resources to support major settlements or a military presence along the Pacific coast of North America and permanent Russian settlers in Alaska never numbered more than four hundred. Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region.

Signing of the Alaska Treaty, 1867

Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain. The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. The Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. This purchase ended Russia’s presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific northern rim.

For three decades after its purchase the United States paid little attention to Alaska, which was governed under military, naval, or Treasury rule or, at times, no visible rule at all. Seeking a way to impose U.S. mining laws, the United States constituted a civil government in 1884. Skeptics had dubbed the purchase of Alaska “Seward’s Folly,” but the former Secretary of State was vindicated when a major gold deposit was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, and Alaska became the gateway to the Klondike gold fields. The strategic importance of Alaska was finally recognized in World War II. Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959.

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Answer to yesterdays trivia:

C. Herod Antipas (Mark 6:14)

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Todays trivia: Don't let anyone think less of you because you are______.

A. Young

B. Old

C. Male

D. Female

E. Strange

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Proverbs 18:24b -

"There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

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Solomon here recommends friendship to us, and shows, 1. What we must do that we may contract and cultivate friendship; we must show ourselves friendly. Would we have friends and keep them, we must not only not affront them, or quarrel with them, but we must love them, and make it appear that we do so by all expressions that are endearing, by being free with them, pleasing to them, visiting them and bidding them welcome, and especially by doing all the good offices we can and serving them in every thing that lies in our power; that is showing ourselves friendly.
     Si vis amari, ama—

     If you wish to gain affection, bestow it.—Sen.
     Ut ameris, amabilis esto—
     The way to be beloved is to be lovely.—Ovid.
That it is worth while to do so, for we may promise ourselves a great deal of comfort in a true friend. A brother indeed is born for adversity, as he had said, ch. 17:17. In our troubles we expect comfort and relief from our relations, but sometimes there is a friend, that is nothing akin to us, the bonds of whose esteem and love prove stronger than those of nature, and, when it comes to the trial, will do more for us than a brother will. Christ is a friend to all believers that sticks closer than a brother; to him therefore let them show themselves friendly.

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'Blood is thicker than water' ever hear that phrase?  Most blood relatives feel they have an ability to do as they please with no consequence while a true friend will tread lightly.  Ever notice that a relative will turn their back and walk away long before a friend?  Or, loaning money or objects, a friend generally will return in agreed upon time frame and a relative will keep indefinitely? For me, DNA signature gives no special treatment. 

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Daily Humor: What kind of meat did Adam refuse to eat?

Spare ribs.

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The 2004 Fallujah Blackwater incident occurred on March 31, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy containing four American contractors from the private military company Blackwater USA who were conducting a delivery for food caterers ESS.

The four armed contractors, Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, Wesley Batalona, and Mike Teague, were killed and dragged from their vehicles. Their bodies were beaten and burned, with their charred corpses then dragged through the city streets before being hung over a bridge crossing the Euphrates River.

Photos of the event, showing jubilant Iraqis posing with the charred corpses, were then released to news agencies worldwide, which caused a great deal of indignation in the United States. This prompted the announcement of a counter-insurgency campaign in the city.

The ambush led to the First Battle of Fallujah, a U.S.-led operation to retake control of the city. However, the battle was halted mid-way for political reasons, an outcome which commentators have described as either a stalemate or an insurgent victory. Seven months later, in November 2004, a second attempt at capturing the city, the Second Battle of Fallujah, proved successful.

Intelligence reports concluded that Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi was the mastermind behind the attack, and was not captured until a successful Navy SEAL operation in 2009. al-Isawi was held for a time by the United States intelligence community and testified at one of the 2010 courts-martial of SEALs he accused of mistreating him while detained at Camp Schwedler. He was subsequently handed over to Iraqi authorities for trial and executed by hanging some time before November 2013.

Undereducated people like to claim Islam is a religion of peace, yet history proves otherwise.  Remember the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center?  Remember the 1988 Lockerbie bombing?  Did you know Islam still allows for human slave trading? Remember the 2009 Ft. Hood shooting?  In 2001, Islamists flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings, the Pentagon, and another flight averted in Pennsylvania, NYC said they would never forget, most have forgotten as NYC city planners, just 9 years later, approved building of a mosque just 2 blocks from where over 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamists. I could go on and on listing murders committed by followers of Muhammad but, I suggest you perform some due diligence.

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Answer to yesterdays trivia: 

A. Young (1 Tim 4:12)

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Todays trivia: Jacob's wife Rachel died while giving birth to whom?

A. Isaac

B. Benjamin

C. Jacob

D. Nadab

E. Marshall Mathers

Monday, March 29, 2021

Zechariah 2:10b -

"I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord."

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They shall have his presence among them: Sing and rejoice, for I come. Those to whom God comes have reason to rejoice, for he will be to them their chief joy. God will come, not to make them a visit only, but to reside with them and preside over them: I will dwell in the midst of thee (v. 10), and it is repeated (v. 11), because it was to have a double accomplishment, 1. In the dedication of the temple, in their regularly observing all God's institutions there and God's owning them therein. Those have God dwelling in the midst of them that have his ordinances administered in their purity, and a divine power going along with them; with these tokens of God