Bible at Home

My mother didn’t have sterling silverware to use when guests came for a lunch or dinner; but my aunt Mildred made sure that all her nieces had sterling silverware, by giving each of us a spoon or fork or knife for every birthday and Christmas. As a child, I thought it strange, but not unkind,…

Of the sixty-six books in the King James Bible, twenty-four of them admonish the reader not to be afraid. Some of them emphasize courage, and some explain reasons for not fearing; but all associate fear with an absence of faith. Probably the simplest, gentlest and most direct message of “Do not fear,” comes from the…

“ Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? This is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, Lord take away my life,for it…

Saint Theresa of Avila lived in Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. She was a nun who had begun to write of some of her experiences in prayer and the answers to prayers when she was called in front of the Inquisition to determine if she had violated the church’s laws in any…

By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before Him whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything. (1 John 3:20) In Lent we can comb our consciences to bring to God the sins we recognize that He has forgiven.…

This weekend I watched an advertisement for a new kind of dog collar that contained a GPA that kept track of the dog and brought him home safely. The claim was that it was 93% effective, the first of its kind. Other collars could deliver a pain when a dog left the designated perimeter, but…

The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablet, which you broke.” (Exodus 34:1) The Ten commandments are the backbone of the nation of Israel. They were God’s tool for forming a slave population into a…

My Grandfather’s dairy farm was on a gently sloping hill rising from the Susquehanna River in New York State. As a child I loved to visit the farm and my grandparents. From their back porch where we sometimes ate breakfast or dinner, there was a sweeping view all the way to the river. Many years…