Bible at Home

For Lent one year a pharmacy in a small southern U.S. Town, advertised a drawing for a rabbit. Sarah, a friend of mine , was a young girl at the time. She and her sister saw the ad and went into the store. They were too young to enter the drawing, so they filled out…

The people of Israel returned from exile to rebuild their ruined temple and made a start on the foundation when Ezra was asked to read to them the Old Testament laws given originally to Moses to give to the whole people of God. (Nehemiah 8:1-9) the words of the law were new to many in…

In the story Silas Marner, written by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in 1861,the main character is a young man engaged to be married, but who is unjustly accused of a crime he didn’t commit, and his accuser eventually married Silas’ fiancé. Silas was a linen weaver by trade, and so he traveled to a…

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…