Bible at Home

The use of clay to produce pottery is one of the oldest crafts of humankind. Shards of ancient pottery have been found on nearly every continent. The Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has displayed a large intact pot that is three thousand years old, and others have been found that are even older. I…

“I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3) These words, if ever heard or read, are almost always dismissed as “filler” for God’s message to Jeremiah to give to his people; but I believe that they express both God’s method and His motive in dealing with…

Short in stature, poor in income, but gigantic in spirit, St. John of the Cross lived and wrote in the sixteenth century some of the greatest spiritual books in the world. “The Dark Night of the Soul”, and “The Ascent Of Mount Carmel” are spiritual classics that in over four hundred years have never been…

Tender Mercy On the day my new-born granddaughter came home from the hospital, I was visiting, and happened to be holding the baby when the doorbell rang. Without even thinking, I went to the door and met a neighbor who was bringing a lemon pound cake in honor of the birth. I have never seen…

In visiting my brother and his wife on the East shore of Maryland one year, I went to a small Methodist church on the Sunday after Christmas. The congregation had a custom of telling “Jesus stories” before the service began. A microphone was passed around to those who raised their hand and they told of…

As a child, I disliked eating eggs so much that my mother, who thought that eggs are always “good for you,” was frustrated when I refused them. After witnessing her frustration, my Aunt Mildred, who was visiting, said to me, “The only reason you don’t like eggs is because you’ve never had egginacup” (all one…

Preparing for a mission trip to a small rural village in Mexico, our church team was told that we would have adequate supplies of bottled water in the van we took, but we must not under any circumstances offer water to the citizens who would be working with us, or we would certainly run out…

Wait “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than the watchmen wait for the morning, more than the watchmen wait for the morning.” (Psalm 130:5) After I had promised not to tell anyone, I told one of my sisters…

In the year 1611, in London, England, a contingent of book publishers protested to King James I that if he allowed a new English version of the whole Bible to be made available to the public at large, they, the publishers, would be driven out of business; for who would buy any other book if…

“The Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you.” (1 Chronicles 9:10) These are the words spoken by King David to his son Solomon, just before turning over the throne of Israel to his son. David had spent the last few years…