But I am a worm and not a man,        scorned by mankind and despised by the people.              7       All who see me mock me;        they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;              8       “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him;        let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”  In this…

In those days they shall no longer say:                    “ ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,        and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’  30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.  My Great-grandfather owned a Christian publishing company, two coal mines, and a tourism company. The…

Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, 6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”  7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” If you read yesterday’s devotional,…

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.  Few people other than his family were more personally devastated by the revelations of sexual misconduct by Ravi Zacharias than I was….

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, “Why should I?” Many a child has wanted to ask that question of a parent but hopefully didn’t dare. Likewise, Vicki, being a math teacher, may have…

Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’ ”  17 So he died according to the word of the…