1. Today on the Almanac, we go to the mailbag to answer a question about the most important event in church history.
  2. לב שׁמע - [Solomon said,] “Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?” 1 KINGS 3:9
  3. Breaking Your Rules — In this episode, we continue our reading and conversation about Dr. Steven Paulson’s breakdown of Martin Luther’s explanation of the two kingdoms. Marriage, children, preaching, serving our neighbor, and standing up to evil.
  4. צמח - [David said,] “For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?" 2 SAMUEL 23:5
  5. Today on the Almanac, we remember Thomas A Kempis the author of what might be the best-selling devotional book of all time.
  6. שׂער - Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight. 2 SAMUEL 14:25–26
  7. Today on the Almanac, we contemplate, among other things, really old banks in Italy and their important connection to the church in Renaissance Italy.
  8. Is repentance really just an afterthought or a one-time event? Or is it the way of the Christian life in which God turns us away from ourselves and towards His Son.
  9. Today on the Almanac, we remember the Dominican Order by counting down the best Dominicans of all time.
  10. גג - It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 2 SAMUEL 11:2