Jeremy Ewing Friday, November 28, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Haggai 1-2, Zechariah 1-5 Devotional Thought The year is 520 B.C., and the remnant of Judah has come home from Babylon to a city of rubble. Under Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest, they have rebuilt their own paneled houses while the house of the … Read more
Ardon is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Ardon was a descendant of Caleb, mentioned in the genealogies of the tribe of Judah. He appears in 1 Chronicles 2:18, where the chronicler records the family line of Caleb the son of Hezron. According to … Read more
Thursday, November 27, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Nahum 3, Habakkuk 1-3, Zephaniah 1-3 Secondary Reading: Psalms 137 Devotional Thought The rivers of Babylon were not quiet brooks but the wide, slow canals of the Euphrates basin, where the exiles of Judah sat down in the dust of a foreign empire. They had been marched … Read more
Ismachiah is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Ismachiah was an officer under King Hezekiah of Judah, charged with overseeing the distribution of tithes and offerings. He appears in a single verse of Scripture, 2 Chronicles 31:13, where he is listed among ten men—Jehiel, … Read more
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Micah 4-7, Nahum 1-2 Devotional Thought Micah stands in the gate of a doomed city and sees what no one else can see: a hill lifted above the hills, nations streaming to it like rivers running uphill, swords hammered into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. He … Read more
The Bible has a great deal to say about backsliding. This study gathers passages from across Scripture and sets them out for reading and reflection. What Scripture Says Backsliding is not a rare or obscure theme in Scripture; it is one of the sad refrains of Israel’s history. In Jeremiah 3:6, the LORD speaks directly … Read more
Jonan is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Jonan was a descendant of David who is named in the genealogy of Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospel of Luke. He appears in the lineage that Luke traces from Jesus backward through His ancestors, a … Read more
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Jonah 1-4, Micah 1-3 Secondary Reading: Psalms 136 Devotional Thought The book of Jonah opens not with a prophet’s vision but with a prophet’s flight. When God commands Jonah to cry against Nineveh, that great city whose wickedness has come up before Him, Jonah rises instead to … Read more
Nahum is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Nahum was a prophet of God whose ministry is preserved in the Old Testament book that bears his name. The source note identifies him as a prophet who foretold the destruction of Nineveh, the capital of … Read more
Monday, November 24, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Amos 4-9, Obadiah 1 Devotional Thought The herdsmen of Tekoa lived far from the courts of power, but God called one of them to speak to a kingdom that had grown fat and careless. Amos opens his scroll with thunder: the LORD roars from Zion, and the … Read more
Sunday, November 23, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Hosea 14, Joel 1-3, Amos 1-3 Secondary Reading: Psalms 135 Devotional Thought Hosea’s final chapter closes his prophecy with a tender invitation: “O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.” After chapters of warning about the coming Assyrian judgment, God … Read more
Sea of Galilee Boat (The “Jesus Boat”) What It Is The Sea of Galilee Boat — also called the Ancient Galilee Boat or popularly the “Jesus Boat” — is a 1st-century C.E. wooden fishing vessel discovered in January 1986 on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, near Kibbutz Ginosar. It is now displayed … Read more