Bible at Home

When my brother was born he was given the name Richard Burdett. The first name was also my Father’s name, and the second was my mother’s maiden name. While he was growing up he was always called “Burr”, to distinguish him from Dad, but when he left home for college he began to use “Dick.”…

There are versions of a story that has circulated simply by internet or word of mouth since the 1930’s. It’s the story of a U.S Navy warship in Canadian waters on a very foggy night. To the surprise of the captain, he perceived the lights of another smaller vessel through the fog, dangerously close. He…

The story of Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem when he was twelve years old, is a signal story. It’s more than a children’s story, for here we show a glimpse of a developmental moment in the life of the son of God. At this three day long moment we can witness the beginnings of…

“From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God.(Luke 22:68) These are the words of Jesus when he stood In front of the chief priests and teachers of the law, accused of claiming to be the Messiah. From there he was sent to Pilate, then to…

The reason that the church marks the days of the birth and the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ with services of equal devotion is that each of them is a salutary medicine for us, because he was born so that we might be born again, and he died that we might live forever. (…

Believe. Faith is a great hold-all, a great jar in which you can receive a great gift. Get a jar ready for yourself, because you have to approach a great spring. What does it mean, get it ready? Let your faith grow, let it be enlarged, let it become strong, don’t let your faith be…

This summer’s fauns have outgrown their spots and are leaping and playing in the cooler weather around Possum Kingdom Lake. A family that lives year-round near the lake feeds the deer, and so they have multiplied and and stayed in the area. The fauns are especially fun to watch as they play together. Their thin…

My great Aunt Fish owned and operated a tea house in the small upstate New York farming village of Otego for several years. At some time or other nearly all of her female family members, including my mother, were employed at the tea house. It was a popular place for people to come for Sunday…

When a man believes with all his understanding that he will not die before he is raptured into heaven, he has one expectation of life, very different from one who does believe that he will die, and in fact that it will be a very uncomfortable death. St. Paul was both of those men. We…

The story of Hannah from the first book of Samuel in the Bible is the story of a woman whose life held little to envy. She was the second wife of her husband, whose first wife was the mother of both sons and daughters. Though Hannah’s husband loved her, she had no hope of a…