Bible at Home

In a movie I watched recently, the housekeeper had promised the family to make a mushroom stew for their dinner. She was starting out to the woods to pick fresh mushrooms when a young woman staying with the family grabbed her basket and walked off with it, saying, I’d love to pick mushrooms! I’ve never…

Once I had the opportunity to see two great blue whales partly submerged, and then one of them breached, off the coast of California. My sister and brother-in-law had arranged a whale viewing boat trip for this very purpose, and just before the captain was about to turn back to the dock in disappointment, he…

The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this (wisdom). So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself. . . but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked.” (1 Kings 3:10-12) One of the most stunning events…

Walking down the isle of a small grocery store, I pulled my cart to the side as I heard another one close behind me. When I looked around I saw a mother with three children, two riding in or on her cart, one walking beside her. What struck me about their appearance was that all…

Two of my young nephews asked me if there was anything they could do to win their English teacher’s favor on a writing assignment. I answered, “If you can use a semicolon properly, she would probably be impressed, especially if she hasn’t taught it to you yet.” Both boys were eager to try, and so…

Maria, a Mexican woman who worked at the church I was attending, and I were chatting when she mentioned that she might be absent for a few days, as she was thinking about returning home with her sister to visit their mother. “My sister always likes to go home for some of my mother’s tortillas,”…

In Rudyard Kipling’s novel Captains Courageous, Harvey Cheyne Sr. sat alone in his office contemplating retirement as one of the richest rail-road barons in America, when he received a telegram. Five months earlier Cheyne’s only son, fifteen year old Harvey Jr, had been swept off the deck of a luxury ocean liner in a storm,…

Fanny Crosby, the author of the famous hymn “Blessed Assurance”, along with more than 8,000 other hymns, was blind almost from birth. She wrote about her blindness and said that, given the chance to have her sight restored by a simple and even convenient operation, She would choose not to have it: “Because when I…

Jesus “marveled” only twice in the New Testament; once in Nazareth when neighbors he knew and loved did not recognize God in him. (Mark 6:6), and once in Capernaum when a Roman centurion did. (Matthew 8:10) “The centurion replied , ‘ Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just…

“Onyx” is the name of a black tea cup poodle puppy who lives next door to us. When he arrived, he was small enough to sit on the palm of my hand. I asked his owner, Susan, if he would get much bigger, and she answered, “They told me that he will grow a little…