https://odb.org/2026/10/21/grace-in-grief Job 1:13–22 (NIV) – One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword,Continue reading “Life can change in a moment”
Category Archives: Eternal life
Longing for Jesus’s return
https://odb.org/2026/10/07/longing-for-jesus-return Philippians 3:17–21 (NIV): 17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the crossContinue reading “Longing for Jesus’s return”
Submit yourselves to God
https://odb.org/2026/08/27/where-god-reigns James 4:1–10 (NIV): 4 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.Continue reading “Submit yourselves to God”
Rental car
https://odb.org/2026/08/11/what-my-rental-car-taught-me 1 Corinthians 6:12–20 (NIV): 12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meantContinue reading “Rental car”
The Godly wisdom of King Solomon
https://odb.org/2026/07/07/the-way-wisdom-works 1 Kings 3:24–28 (NIV): 24 Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king. 25 He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”26 The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for herContinue reading “The Godly wisdom of King Solomon”
Demigods and our human mortality
https://odb.org/2026/06/09/glory-and-majesty Isaiah 14:12–15 (NIV): 12 How you have fallen from heaven,morning star, son of the dawn!You have been cast down to the earth,you who once laid low the nations!13 You said in your heart,“I will ascend to the heavens;I will raise my throneabove the stars of God;I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,on the utmostContinue reading “Demigods and our human mortality”
Our destiny is death
https://odb.org/2026/05/05/plan-on-it Ecclesiastes 7:1–10 (NIV): 7 A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this toContinue reading “Our destiny is death”
Getting angry at God?
https://odb.org/2026/04/29/prayer-in-disguise Job 19:5–12 (NIV): 5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, 6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. 7 “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. 8 He has blocked my way so IContinue reading “Getting angry at God?”
I am your God and will uphold you with my righteous right hand
https://odb.org/2026/04/10/safe-in-his-hands Isaiah 41:8–10 (NIV): 8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen,you descendants of Abraham my friend,9 I took you from the ends of the earth,from its farthest corners I called you.I said, ‘You are my servant’;I have chosen you and have not rejected you. 10 So do not fear, for I am with you;doContinue reading “I am your God and will uphold you with my righteous right hand”
When there are no easy answers
https://odb.org/2026/03/14/when-there-are-no-answers Psalm 22:1-11 NIV My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? 2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. 3 Yet you are enthroned as theContinue reading “When there are no easy answers”
