Bible at Home

Sitting near the gate at the San Antonio airport, waiting for a flight to Mexico, I discovered that I had left my Kindle in the security check bin, and went to retrieve it. At the desk I was asked the title of the book I was reading, to make sure I was really the owner.…

God is not stupid. He knows that He is invisible to His people. It was one of the issues between Moses and Himself: Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” And the Lord said, “I will cause all my glory to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, ‘The Lord’ in…

Birthday Cake The cutting of the birthday cake of our four year old neighbor was a big occasion, and Jack and I were happy to be invited to the ceremony. Michelle, the birthday girl, sat in a high chair while the rest of us sat around her at the dining room table. The cake was…

Sitting in our veterinarian’s waiting room with our cat secure in his carrier, I started a conversation with the woman next to me, who had a very large male rottweiler sitting quietly on the floor at her knee. He was on a loose leash, and when he turned his face to me, I could see…

One of the many specific commands that God gave the ancient Hebrews when He was first shaping them into a unified nation, was the command about their clothing. They were to wear tassels attached to the hem of their robes for a very special reason: Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels…

Davy Crockett’s alleged violin is kept in the Witte museum in San Antonio, Texas. Some times it is loaned to the Alamo or other museums for demonstrations or simply as an historic artifact. Perhaps the most curious thing about the violin is the story that Davy placed the rattles from the tail of a rattlesnake…

The man didn’t ask for pity. Instead, he asked for the power he recognized in Jesus, to be applied to his leprosy: A man with leprosy came to Jesus and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him,…

We pray to Christ as our God, Christ prays for us (as our Priest), and He prays in us as our head. (St. Augustine) Lent has launched, and we are starting on our forty day journey into the wilderness of our lives. The intersection of naturall and supernatural receives a nudge in Lent as we…

Today is Ash Wednesday, when we are reminded of our own mortality by wearing the mark of ashes on our forehead. It’s a solemn ceremony that ushers in the season of Lent. Ash Wednesday reminds me of the day that Ezra read to the Israelites who had returned from Babylon, the scriptures that they had…

On the map, Possum Kingdom Lake looks like a large dragon sprawled out in at least three directions with a coiling tail which is the Brazos River. P.K. Is a deep, cold lake shaped in the early 1940’s from canyons near the river bed. It supports a wealth of wildlife, including birds, fish, deer, and…