Bible at Home

Walking one day on the street of Virginia City, Nevada, young Samuel Clemens (known as Mark Twain) noticed a sheet of paper blowing in the breeze ahead of him. When he reached it he stopped to pick it up and found that it was a page from an account of the life of Joan of…

Unlike much of the rest of humanity, Jesus is never coy or evasive about his identity to his followers.; so, when I read about his walk to the town of Emmaus, disguised as an unrecognizable stranger to two of his own disciples, I wondered why this was so. (Luke 24:13-25) It is a unique story…

“Mimi, you know that thing that’s inside an M&M—that seed?” asked Rosie, my four year old granddaughter. “You mean the peanut inside the M&M?” “Yes! A peanut is a seed, isn’t it?” “Well, yes.” “Well, why don’t we take an M&M and plant it, and have an M&M tree in our yard?” “Because the peanut…

When Jesus told Peter “Feed My Sheep” (John 21:15-17), he was conveying and entirely new life-style to Peter. He wasn’t suggesting an avocation for his disciple, but a radical change that carried infinite implications that Peter couldn’t possibly know I advance. What Peter did know, was that Jesus, once a carpenter, called himself a “shepherd.”…

“I see that you have some nice knives,” said a friend to me when he returned from my kitchen where he had gone to wash his hands. “You left them wet by the sink. It would have been better not to wash them at all, than to lave the blades wet.” Sam worked for the…

Nowhere in the Bible does any Old or New Testament person tell us that we must learn to forgive ourselves. Indeed, if it were possible to forgive ourselves, we wouldn’t need a Savior God. Yet, many times I have heard someone say regretfully, “I know, of course, that God has forgiven me, but I still…

After his resurrection, speaking to his eleven disciples, Jesus said, . . . Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. (Matthew 28:10) These words have come to be…

My grandmother was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the WCTU. Growing up, I never saw a bottle or a can of an alcoholic beverage of any kind in our house. But my father had a curious habit of calling us children up the stairs, “What’ll you have?’, for us to respond, “Pabst…

Standing in a 20 foot high circle in County Cork, Ireland, is a stainless steel sculpture by Alex Pentek, of nine huge eagle feathers arranged in a circle reminiscent of a bowl. It was erected in honor of the Oklahoma Choctaw Indian tribe. The information for this story appeared in the September- October issue of…

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God. . . (Deuteronomy 10:12) When Peter saw the miraculous catch of fish he fell at Jesus’ feet and said, “Go away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man! Then Jesus said to him, “Don’t be…