Yahweh is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you. - Psalm 9:9-10 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:03 – Introduction 15:02 – My Commentary on Psalm 9 51:20 - ‘Of Plymouth Plantation,…

Yahweh judges the peoples; judge me, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. - Psalm 7:8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:38 – Introduction 10:39 – My Commentary on Psalm 7 27:13 - THE BIBLE, CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, AND LENDING MONEY: AN ARGUMENT FOR RENEWED CHRISTIAN PERSPE…

Turn, O Yahweh, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? - Psalm 6:4-5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:55 – Introduction 11:49 – My Commentary on Psalm 6 30:35 - F. Scott Fitzgerald – Wikipedia 45:47 - Jazz Age – Wi…

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in Yahweh. - Psalm 4:4-5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:43 – Introduction 08:16 – My Commentary on Psalm 4 22:06 – ‘The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, …

O Yahweh, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah - Psalm 3:1-2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:29 – Introduction 04:35 – My Commentary on Psalm 3 32:40 - What Does Selah Mean? – Ashley Lyon, Bible Study Magazine, Logos.com 46:12 - …

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers…” - Psalms 1:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:16 – Introduction 06:44 - Psalms – Wikipedia 34:00 – My Commentary on Psalm 1 1:02:41 - A Personal Story 1:19:50 - EXCLUSIVE: FEMA Officia…

And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. - Job 42:10 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:11 – Introduction 07:32 – My Commentary on Job 42 40:05 - Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November 1:07:37 - What May Be, Unburdened By What H…

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?” - Job 38:1-2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 18:22 – My Commentary on Job 38-39 46:31 – AllSides Front Page 1:16:47 - Is Voting a Christian Responsibility? – Cynthia Garrett, Christianity.com 1:43:39 …

For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you. - Job 36:4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 06:16 – Have I Been Wrong About Elihu? 24:47 – My Commentary on Job 36-37 58:14 - Who Is Elihu in the Bible Story about Job? – Britt Mooney, Christianity.com 1:04:03 - Matthew Henry’s Commentary on…

“Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.” - Job 35:16 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 5:27 – My Commentary on Job 35 41:52 - Trump Made Appearance on Joe Rogan Podcast – Headline Roundup, AllSides 45:52 - Joe Rogan: Kamala Was ‘Supposed To’ Do My Show, Has Not Showed Up – Ryan Saavedr…

For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him. Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice. - Job 34:11-12 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 09:27 – My Commentary on Job 34 54:25 – Magna Carta – Britannica 1:17:40 – Acts of …

“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man." - Job 33:12 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:19 – My Commentary on Job 33 37:03 - Emotivism - Wikipedia 1:16:09 - Radical honesty – Wikipedia 1:39:40 - ‘Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence’ by Anna Lembke - Goo…

I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away. - Job 32:21-22 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 07:55 – My Commentary on Job 32 45:04 – RESPECTFUL | definition – Cambridge Dictionary 1:03:17 - Seven Woes to the Scribes and…

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God ab…

And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’ ” - Job 28:28 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 17:24 – My Commentary on Job 25-30 1:03:06 - Diogenes of Sinope Quotes – Goodreads 1:11:19 – Diogenes – Wikipedia 1:34:21 - Sophist – Wikipedia 1:51:29 - Colora…

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light. For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. - Job 24:16-17 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 10:45 – My Commentary on Job 22-24 36:22 – Wicked Definition & Meaning – M…

“How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” - Job 21:34 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 10:23 – My Commentary on Job 20-21 21:11 - ‘Abuse of Language—Abuse of Power’ by Joseph Pieper – Goodreads 49:41 – Being Honest About a Mistake: A Work Story 1:07:24 – My…

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight? You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? - Job 18:2-4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 08:29 – My Commentary on Jo…

What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? - Job 15:9 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 12:13 – My Commentary on Job 15-17 31:29 - Tom Cotton: America Needs To Adjust To The Future Of Warfare – Daily Wire News 46:24 - Ex-Pastor J.D. Hall guilty of embezzlement, ordered to pay r…

“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? - Job 12:2-3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 14:40 – My Commentary on Job 11-14 48:24 – Conviction Word Study – Bible Gateway 1:03:55 - Encouragement Wo…

It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ - Job 9:22 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 12:09 – My Commentary on Job 8-10 45:31 - Iran Attacks Israel 1:17:10 - The Vice Presidential Debate 1:42:03 – About the Federal Response to Hurricane Helene 2:02:06 - Against Insincere Apologies…

“Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. - Job 6:2-3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 07:54 – My Commentary on Job 5-7 24:11 - Role of pain catastrophizing during pain processing in a cohort of …

“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.” - Job 4:7-9 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:32 - Commentary on Job 4 15:16 – B…

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of hisbirth. And Job said: “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’ Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.” - Job 3:1-4

And Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.” - Job 2:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading …

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away; blessed be the name of Yahweh.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. - Job 1:20-22 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 …

For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. - Esther 10:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:23 – My Commentary on Esther 10 22:52 - Harris, Walz Sit…

The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples. - Esther 9:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 14:34 – My Commentary on Esther 9 53:07 - Hamas Official: 10/7 …

A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. - Esther 8:13 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 08:04 – Thoughts on the Reading 41:45 – What does the Bible say about self-defe…

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?” And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. - Esther 7:5-6 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:44 – Thoughts on the Reading 35:19 - RFK Jr. Suspends Presid…

So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.” - Esther 6:11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:25 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:38 - HONOR | Definition – Cambridge Dic…

Then Esther answered, “My wish and my request is: If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.” - Esther 5:7-8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scriptur…

When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. - Esther 4:4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:35 – Thoughts on the Reading 37:22 - Anxiety disorders – Mayo Clinic…

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. If it please the king, let it be decreed that t…

When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. - Esther 2:23 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:13 – Thoughts on the Reading 1:01:14 - ‘Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Tr…

Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.” - Esther 1:16 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:59 – Thoughts on the Reading 32:26 - Secretar…

Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. - Nehemiah 13:20-21 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 06:0…

For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. - Nehemiah 12:46 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 07:03 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:14 – ‘Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition’ by Glenn S.…

“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to…

And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. - Nehemiah 9:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 08:02 – Thoughts on the Reading 42:02 - Genesis 9 – Biblia.com 1:10:30 - I have three crucial observations for Christians from that debacle …

They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. - Nehemiah 8:8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 06:31 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:45 - The fake news has started their Kamala spin machine, but their lies don't fly on X. Check out these epic comm…

And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.” - Nehemiah 7:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture R…

Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.” For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands. - Nehemiah 6:8-9 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04…

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.- https://biblia.com/bible/esv/nehemiah/5/1-19 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:00:24 – Scripture Reading04:11 – https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/Neh/Neh_005.cfm35:19 - https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=oppression&resultspp=2…

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and se…

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel. - Nehemiah 3:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 07:13 – Thoughts on the Reading 36:38 – A Phi…

Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. - Nehemiah 2:9-10 T…

“Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strongand do it.” - Ezra 10:4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 06:36 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:42 - Trump Survives Assassination Attempt at Pennsylvania Rally – Several Contributing, The Epoch Times 48:16 - Trump Apparently Grazed by Bullet at Rally in Pennsylvani…

“For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.” - Ezra 9:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 3:58 – Thoughts on the Readi…

Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us m…