2026-09-26
1 Kings 5:4-5 But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There’s neither adversary nor misfortune. And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as …
2026-09-25
1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breath of mind like the sand on the sea shore, so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all …
2026-09-24
1 Kings 3:26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, giver her the living child, and by no means put him to …
Thomas Browne:
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosme, and carries the whole world about him; Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus, though it bee the Apophthegme of a wise man, is yet …
2026-09-23
1 Kings 2:8-9 And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came …
Finished reading: New City Catechism Devotional by Collin Hansen, Timothy J. Keller 📚
2026-09-22
1 Kings 1:5 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
One …
2026-09-21
2 Samuel 24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” …
Finished reading: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 📚
The sort of book you know you have not yet had the best experience reading it once, you must come back again, and again, if you would appreciate what the author has managed to do. This has been a good one, however challenging.
2026-09-20
2 Samuel 23:3-4
The God of Israel has spoken
the rock of Israel has said to me
When one rules justly over men
ruling in the fear of God
he dawns on them like the morning light
like the …