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Before Jesus was born, before David was born, before there was a nation called Israel, there was a prophecy given to Jacob on his deathbed, a message to his sons: “Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down to you. .…

As the Israelites coalesced around Moses and began their journey toward the Promised Land, God gave them the ten commandments and other decrees and laws and began to fill them with a vision of His intention for them that came from an even more ancient time than theirs. He began to picture for them His…

Martha hesitated when Jesus told her to move the stone from Lazarus’ grave. Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I…

“Very truly I tell you, the son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the son also does.” (John 5:19) “Because I live you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are…

“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you. . . it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame . . . I am afraid that if that cord of communion is…

You Have Yosemite Once when Jack and I were visiting with friends in Merida, on the Yucatan Peninsula,, we hired an Uber driver to take us to the zoo and later to return us to our friends’ haciendita. The driver spoke fluent English, and said that he had been caught in the U.S. For illegal…

God’s Bridge “Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the…

Of my four siblings, only my oldest sister had bright red hair. It was her “crowning glory”, and noticed by everyone. Nancy grew up to become an elementary school teacher; and one day when she was teaching second grade, the principal walked into her room accompanied by a red-haired boy and carrying the boy’s file…

Sometime between 486 and 465 BC a young Jewish woman named Esther, or “Hadassah”, her Hebrew name, took her life in her hands and stood silently waiting to see if her husband, King Xerxes of Persia, would acknowledge her, thereby saving her life, or if he would ignore her and so condemn her to death.…

Sitting on the gymnasium floor in junior high school after our class had finished a workout for almost 45 minutes, I began to imagine an ice cold 7UP, and how incredibly delicious that would taste at that moment. It was an image that I couldn’t shake, and I stopped listening to our gym teacher as…