The pastor's reading today was chapters 22 through 24 of the Gospel of Luke. And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him. But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, …
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The LORD God is Wholly Holy, Holy, Holy
The prophet Isaiah saw the LORD on His throne high and lifted up and His servants the seraphim declared Him as Holy, Holy, Holy (Isaiah 6:1-3). Our reading for today is 1 Samuel 4 through 6 from which we get our excerpt for today. And He smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked …
Jerusalem Has Grievously Sinned
"How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to …
Caution Needed When Making Vows
"Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, 'If You shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon …
102611 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens
"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have …
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