Bible at Home

“I’m a West Texas girl, and if I know anything, I know that you never, ever, pick up a snake by its tail, and when I read that in the Bible, (Exodus 4:4) I knew that it was really God speaking to Moses, and I believed.” These were the words of Ellen, a young woman…

How is it possible that manyi Ghristians believe the Christmas story and the Easter story, but laughingly reject the story of Jonah? In fact, Jonah has become a colorful children’s story, and is treated as cute entertainment. I once heard a speaker assert that there can’t be literal truth n it, as there are no…

Heidi, a friend of mine from Germany, once told me that “Texas is to America what Bavaria is to Germany.” In what way?” I asked. “Texas is like a whole different country inside the united States,” she answered. Heidi had probably seen more of the U.S. Than I had, as her husband was on an…

In the midst of issuing a list of laws and instructions to Moses for His people, God paused and said to Moses, “Say to Aaron and his sons, ‘Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, ‘ The Lord bless you and keep you: The Lord make His face to…

We hadn’t driven our second car for about two weeks when Jack went out to start it up and drive it to an errand. He had trouble starting it, so he lifted the hood and to his astonishment found a messy nest of leaves and a young possum staring at him and hissing. Jack came…

A voice calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (Isaiah 40:3) I always imagined the desert in this passage to be like the image in my mind of the Sahara Desert, and the rolling dunes I had seen in pictures. It would…

Sometimes we may think that the “Christmas Spirit” was invented by Charles Dickens, and that it is simply reinforced by commercial interests and Hallmark movies in modern times; but the Christmas Spirit exists even in the Bible, even before the actual birth of Christ a merry heart is praised in the book of Proverbs: The…

Mary’s Face In tombs of Egyptian royalty there have been found hand mirrors made of polished brass from as long ago as three thousand years. These mirrors were owned by the wealthy and royalty. Mary, on the other hand, almost certainly never owned and had possibly never even seen a mirror. She likely never saw…

Charles Spurgeon once wrote that for him, one of the marvels of Christmas was the willing and even joyful presence of the angels. It was remarkable, he thought , that they displayed no jealousy over the fact that God had chosen humanity to receive His son, instead of choosing the angels themselves to receive him.…