David Sandel

Friday, October 31, 2025 All Hallows Eve (Halloween) Viewfinders Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. He has granted peace in your borders; with the best of wheat he fills you. He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly runs his word! Casey, Michelle and I dined on homemade chili and talked about many things, including...

Thursday, October 30, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Cedar chest Brothers and sisters, If God is for us, who can be against us? Through the rain, which lasted all day and seemed to be following me down the interstates through Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, here I am at the...

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jollyville Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the...

Monday, October 27, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) More If you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of...

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 26, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Church Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a...

Saturday, October 25, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) City of love Brothers and sisters: Now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death. After getting...

Friday, October 24, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Rule of compassion I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells...

Thursday, October 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Just sit You are like a tree planted near running water, That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. In Shaped by the Word, Robert Mulholland says each of us is “a word spoken by God into...

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Passion Do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness. I cherish...