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This lament by God over the unfaithfulness of Israel goes on for several chapters. God uses several different metaphors to express his...

Ruth went to work, and “as it happened” she joined the gleaners in the field of a rich relative of Naomi’s husband. The man’s name was...

In our text, God is in the middle of a sustained charge against Israel, that is, the refugees from the now defunct Kingdom of Israel as...

“ As it happened,” that’s what the text says (Ruth 2:3). Ruth went out to glean barley in order to provide some food and income for her...

Chapter 1 is an introduction to the prophet Jeremiah and the beginning of his long conversation with God about the times that Jeremiah...

If the Book of Judges was written to show how ruthless life in Israel could be without a king, then the sinful Israelites certainly...

There is abundant evidence in the Book of Jeremiah that he had a lifetime secretary, a scribe who wrote down the words that Jeremiah...

The Book of Judges ends with a terrible story about a village within the tribal allotment of the Benjamin where the men demanded that a...

Notice the contrasting phrases in the first paragraph of the first chapter, verses 1-3, and the second paragraph below, verses 4-5. This...

After Jephthah was given a victory by God, he rashly made a promise to offer as a sacrifice to God the first thing to come out of his...

Jeremiah, the prophet not the bullfrog, was called by God to preach, to criticize, and to warn people who imagined that they were...

This is a difficult story. The distance between our culture and the culture of the Israelites and surrounding people during the period of...

Well, we come to the end of the Gospel according to Matthew, and I am glad that you are still with me in our quest to dig deeper into...

Read Judges Chapter 5. It is a psalm, that is, a song. The psalms were written to be sung or chanted back and forth by the worship leader...

Jesus’ words are comforting, but why should his disciples remember this? Are they supposed to recall it because Jesus has already told...

You know the story of the children of Israel; God broke them out of captivity in Egypt through the work of Moses. There was the...

Luke 12……….Rich toward God   LUKE 12: 13-21.  Someone in the crowd said  to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to  divide the family...

“ And teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28: 20b)    What does “to obey all that I have commanded you”...

I said that we were ready to leave the Pentateuch in our survey of women with a story to tell, but I missed an important group (which, to...

“And teaching them  to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28: 20b) Notice that Jesus did not say, “teaching them to...