This Week's Focus Passage: Isaiah 1:2 'I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.' Empathy? Actually a very interesting matter; is it not? What is empathy; what does the word mean? A particularly 'lightweight' dictionary informs a seeker that empathy is an "ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts, or feelings." Another diction...

This Week's Focus Passage: Proverbs 13:20 'Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise.' There are a multitude of expressions, warnings, guidelines, directions, in the Scriptures, that have the features that we see in this text from Proverbs; namely, the feature of what we may call 'pro and con,' or in biblical language perhaps, 'yea and nay.' We speak of the entirety o...

Read Through the Bible 2020 08/09/20 Luke 16:1-9 1 Timothy 6:1-10 Proverbs 9 Nehemiah 1-2 08/13/20 Luke 17:11-19 2 Tim. 2:1-13 Pr. 11:16-31 Neh. 7 08/10/20 Luke 16:10-18 1 Tim. 6:11-21 Prov. 10:1-16 Nehemiah 3 08/14/20 Luke 17:20-37 2 Tim. 2:14-26 Pr. 12:1-14 Neh. 8 08/11/20 Luke ...

Read Through the Bible 2020 08/09/20 Luke 16:1-9 1 Timothy 6:1-10 Proverbs 9 Nehemiah 1-2 08/13/20 Luke 17:11-19 2 Tim. 2:1-13 Pr. 11:16-31 Neh. 7 08/10/20 Luke 16:10-18 1 Tim. 6:11-21 Prov. 10:1-16 Nehemiah 3 08/14/20 Luke 17:20-37 2 Tim. 2:14-26 Pr. 12:1-14 Neh. 8 08/11/20 Luke ...

Read Through the Bible 2020 08/02/20 Luke 13:10-21 1 Tim. 1:12-20 Proverbs 2 Ezra 3 08/06/20 Luke 14:25-35 1 Timothy 4 Proverbs 6 Ezra 8 08/03/20 Luke 13:22-35 1 Timothy 2 Proverbs 3 Ezra 4-5 08/07/20 Luke 15:1-10 1 Tim. 5:1-15 Proverbs 7 Ezra 9 08/04/20 Luke 14:1-14 1 Tim. 3:1-1...

This Week's Focus Passage: Luke 13:3, 5 'Except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.' Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they have suffered these thi...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 150 'Let everything that hath breath praise Jehovah.' We must admit, most likely every one of us, that we have all heard from time to time over the years, someoneperhaps a co-worker, a neighbor, a friend, even one among our own familyin a fit of enthusiasm, maybe joy, shouting aloud this word; 'Hallelujah.' But very sadly, making use of ...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 'But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep.' But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Thessalonians 1:5 'Our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power.' After the salutation that Paul offered in his first epistle to the church of the Thessalonians, he began immediately to engage in thanksgiving and praise to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, in verses two through five in the first chapter. Read carefu...

This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Kings 2:11 'Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.' What a dramatic exit from the earth was granted to this prophet, Elijah. The first notice given him in the Word of God is almost as dramatic;read at the beginning of the seventeenth chapter, simply that he 'said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, th...