“And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, but we hesitate to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?” ~ I Kings 22:3 REFERENCEI Kings 22:1-3 There are certain noteworthy keywords/phrases in today’s focal verse – “Do you know?”,...

But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.  Matthew 13:22 REFERENCEMatthew 13:1-9, 18-23 This parable of the sower reveals the place of the heart whenever God’s Word...

“Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.”  Matthew 2:12. REFERENCEMatthew 2:1-15 …Herod pretended to share the same quest with the wise men: to seek and worship the newborn King. But he wanted to harm the...