1. Mass divorce and the fear of Ezra.
  2. Today on the Almanac, we remember Thomas Goodwin: Puritan, Pastor, and President of Magdalen College at Oxford.
  3. בעט - [God said to Eli,] "Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?" 1 SAMUEL 2:29
  4. קרב - The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock. LEVITICUS 1:1–2
  5. As we continue through the Small Catechism, Luther provides questions and answers about the Lord’s Supper.
  6. The year was 1852. We remember Isabel “Belle” Harris Bennett. The reading is the final stanza of T.S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.”
  7. Asking God to be gracious to me, because my enemies are trampling on me.
  8. Psalm 31 delivers the promise that God is our deliverer and steadfast refuge.
  9. On this day, we remember the feast day for St. John the Evangelist. Today, in 537 AD, the construction of Haga Sophia was completed. The reading is "Earth cannot bar flame from ascending" by Rossetti.
  10. On episode FIFTY-SEVEN of Let the Bird Fly! Wade and Mike sit down for a somewhat off-the-cuff episode.