Day: March 20, 2016

The Week March 20, 2016

It might just be a matter of wrong expectations.

Never Give Up

We must grow weary of docenting the glory of God.

Woe and Destruction

Israel had become God's enemy.

Rape

The Seventh Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (9)

Deuteronomy 22.25-27

²⁵ “But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. ²⁶ But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. ²⁷ For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.”

Psalm 119:92

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. This brief statement focuses on a key element in the function of the Law and its proper application, i.e., that it keeps those who follow it from the afflictions of sin. Today's readings in the Psalms: Morning: Psalm 52 Mid-day: […]