Bible at Home

Psalm 65 As I reached for the thermostat to turn up the air conditioner, I thought about the Pharaohs 0f Egypt and remembered that I had read that the royal family members of ancient Egypt had slaves, who accompanied them, and gently cooled them with hand- held fans. I smiled to myself that all I…

For at least eighteen hundred years the pastors or priests of many Christian churches have called to their people attending worship services: “Lift up your hearts,” to hear the response, “We lift them up to the Lord!” It is a call to worship that has been used in almost every denomination, and a response that…

God’s Love God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ( Romans 5:8) St. Paul’s view of “God’s own love for us “ is not exactly the love of engaged couples, or of brother and sisters. There is no perfect comparison of God’s love in…

Since God first spoke to Abraham, and Sarah’s baby displayed evidence of a living God in the midst of the Hebrew people, people everywhere have searched for ways of finding Him themselves. In the Book of Jeremiah God made it clear that He had every desire and even plan, to be found by His people:…

In the early part of the book of Psalms there is one Psalm that makes me pause whenever I read it. It’s Psalm 16, and in my mind it coalesces the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and human beings together. David wrote the psalm in time, yet, it breathes a breath of eternity: “Lord,…

Araxie Azarigian was a slender woman who attended my Sunday School class of senior women . She listened attentively and was well liked by the other members of the class. She was quieter than most. One day our reading was from Deuteronomy 22:8: “ When you build a new house, (in the Promised Land) make…

Once when I was teaching eighth grade Sunday School, I assigned the class the task of memorizing a single passage of scripture of their own choice. Allen raised his hand and said in a sing-song voice, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whosoever believed in him should not…

Accompanied by Ed and Vickie, friends from Kerrville, Texas, Jack and I drove to Mason, Texas in search of the legendary topaz that can be found in Mason County. The ranch where we would search, sent a cowboy to meet us at a Dairy Queen, and we followed him in Ed’s truck through ranch roads…

In 1821 a Cherokee Native American named Sequoyah had been making marks on paper that some fellow tribesmen believed were black magic, and, though Sequoyah was a popular member of his tribe, he was subjected to a trial by the tribal leaders. In reality Sequoyah had been composing a written language in their native language,…