Bible at Home

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…

When the great patriarch Jacob died, eleven of his sons were worried and downright frightened that Joseph, the one they had thought first to murder, then settled for selling him as a slave, would now take revenge for the harm they had meant for him. The brothers concocted a message they claimed came from Jacob,…

“For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 5:20) This powerful remark made by Jesus in his sermon on the Mount has puzzled me, partly because I can’t picture what the Pharisees and teachers…

Good Things Last The greatest thing since the wonderful birth of Christ, foretold hundreds of years in advance, the greatest thing in the universe for humanity, was Jesus’ resurrection, now about two thousand years ago. The good things of God, made known in His son, have lasted and continue to last for eternity. Isaiah began…

When Abraham sent his servant to visit Abraham’s brother’s family in order to find a wife for Isaac,his son, the servant was surprised to find Rebekah at the first place that he stopped to inquire. The servant had relied upon Abraham’s God for the journey, and then for discovering the very young woman he was…

One day when I was grocery shopping, I carried my purse in the cart I was pushing. It was open on the top rack of the cart. My wallet was perfectly visible in the purse, and I was carelessly turning my back on it to look at produce and other groceries. When I arrived at…

Jack, my husband, told this story about going to lunch with a friend from work. He and his friend went to an Italian restaurant where his friend ordered spaghetti, and at the end of the meal he said, “This was good spaghetti, and on top of that, it’s the first time I’lve had spaghetti and…