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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. . . ( Proverbs 3:5-6) Once more the Philistines came up and spread out in the valley of Rephaim; so David inquired of the Lord, and He answered, “Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack…

In his Spiritual Diary, Pope St. John Paul II wrote that “The Scriptures are the library of the heart” for Christians. When I read that, it resonated with me, because of the rich and wonderful variety of material the Scriptures contain, that deals with the deepest concerns of human souls; and though very deep, the…

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all patriarchs of the Hebrew people, were shepherds by occupation. They each acquired wealth and status in their worlds, and were each the early “chosen” ones of God. Their descendants would receive the distinction of this “chosenness,” and multiply into a nation: Israel. The prophet Hosea, speaking for the Lord God,…

When my parents bought the house where I grew up, my mother found in the cellar, on a dusty shelf, a glass toothpick holder which looked as if it might be an antique. She brought it upstairs to the kitchen, washed it, and left it on the kitchen table. That afternoon one of her cousins…

Of all the living things created by God, human beings are the only ones who bear His “image.” They are also the only ones who daily fight the battles between good and evil in themselves , sometimes winning for good, and sometimes losing. Plants and animals suffer, but they do not sin. God’s angels do…

Nicodemus, a Pharisee, came one night to visit Jesus. He said, “Rabbi,. We know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform the works that you are doing if God were not with him.” (John 3:1) Nicodemus was rewarded for his remark with Jesus’ words concerning the second…

Benhadad’s officers said to him, “The Israeli God is a god of the hills; that is why they won ( the battle) . But we can beat them easily in the valleys.” (1 Kings 20;23) The Lord’s message to Ahab, the King of Israel,was, “Because the Syrians have said, “The Lord is the God of…

My brother once had an electric train when I was about seven years old and he was eleven. The train was set up in the basement on large sheets of plywood. It had multiple switches, and an ever growing “layout” that fascinated me. I wasn’t allowed to touch the train, but I often visited it…

Four cats, a mother and three kittens, have found our patio a place to rest, and since Jack started to put food out for them, to have at least one meal a day there. They are quite pretty cats, and very feral. They’re shy of us and run when they see us, but not so…

This is a true story. I once taught a Sunday School class of senior women, among whom were many saints who had experienced a great deal more of life in Christ than I had. In the spring of the year in the Houston area where we lived I enjoyed the honor of inviting them to…