Bible at Home

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…

Before the Biblical Abraham could receive a promise, before he could form a household and envision a future, he had to “Go from your country, your people, and your father’s household to the land that I (God) will show you.” (Genesis 12:1) Abraham had to detach himself from all the people, places, and things which…

“Did you see the way his mouth was open when you brought Scuffy (our cat) into the clinic? I was sure he wouldn’t live through the night,” said Stan, our veterinarian, the next day. “He had every symptom of the last stage of kidney disease, but this morning he’s standing, and hungry; his fur is…

“On the last day of the festival Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’” (John7:37) When Jesus spoke these words, he had already told a Samaritan…

There is a narrow point, extending into Possum Kingdom Lake, from an uninhabited peninsula. The point of land grows as a drought causes the lake to recede. Standing on our deck one day, as I looked toward the point, I saw a cow standing near the water, and another cow further back near the line…