Bible at Home

For two and a half weeks the contents of my kitchen have been stacked in piles around the rest of the house while we had the cabinets and drawers painted. It wouldn’t have taken so long except for the three day freeze and the two days of Jack not feeling well so the painter didn’t…

The process of making silk fabric requires only a temperate climate, an abundance of mulberry trees, and a small white moth, the “silk moth”, to lay eggs that produce silkworms who make cocoons after devouring the mulberry leaves. The cocoons themselves are made into silk after processing, as a “thread” is unwound from each cocoon…

“My word! What a mess you’re making,” said Nana to us children when we were busy cutting paper and strewing it around . I used to wonder what “My word” really meant, until I read Isaiah 55:11: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven , and do not return to it without…

My father used to work in an office not too far from the school I attended in seventh grade. I usually walked home for lunch, but sometimes Dad would say, “Stop by the office and I’ll give you a lift. I’ll meet you there.” It was a treat to go home for lunch with him.…

Unblemished The Exodus from Egypt ids the very first time that God told the Hebrew people that the sacrifices ff Lambs or goats on the night of the Passover must be unblemished animals. Afterward this the requirement became standard for all sacrifices made to God. Before the Exodus, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all made sacrifices…

When Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father, sought to remarry after the death of his first wife, he traveled to Elizabethtown Kentucky from Illinois to ask Sarah Bush Johnston to be his wife and mother to his two children, ten year old Abraham and his twelve year old sister Sarah. Thomas left the children alone in an…

“He (Moses) persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.” (Hebrews 11:27) If this sentence showed up in an English composition the teacher would discount it for being hopelessly contradictory, yet much understanding of Moses and our own relationship to an invisible God is wrapped in this simple statement by the author of the book…

Before I was married, my mother told me that the day would come when I would hear myself use an expression I had never used before, but that my husband used, “Don’t worry,” she said, “You haven’t lost your identity. You’ve just appropriated some of his. You are still your own self.” I found that…

On December 31 I read the last chapter of the Book of Revelation and found this:” I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who ha been showing them to me. But he…

Driving home from a visit with our foster child’s mother, I was surprised when five-year-old Emily told me that her mother was going to “get another baby.” I was quite sure that if that were true, I would have been told, and so I said nothing. Emily seemed to think that it explained why she…