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In the midst of issuing a list of laws and instructions to Moses for His people, God paused and said to Moses, “Say to Aaron and his sons, ‘Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, ‘ The Lord bless you and keep you: The Lord make His face to…

We hadn’t driven our second car for about two weeks when Jack went out to start it up and drive it to an errand. He had trouble starting it, so he lifted the hood and to his astonishment found a messy nest of leaves and a young possum staring at him and hissing. Jack came…

A voice calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (Isaiah 40:3) I always imagined the desert in this passage to be like the image in my mind of the Sahara Desert, and the rolling dunes I had seen in pictures. It would…

Sometimes we may think that the “Christmas Spirit” was invented by Charles Dickens, and that it is simply reinforced by commercial interests and Hallmark movies in modern times; but the Christmas Spirit exists even in the Bible, even before the actual birth of Christ a merry heart is praised in the book of Proverbs: The…

Mary’s Face In tombs of Egyptian royalty there have been found hand mirrors made of polished brass from as long ago as three thousand years. These mirrors were owned by the wealthy and royalty. Mary, on the other hand, almost certainly never owned and had possibly never even seen a mirror. She likely never saw…

Charles Spurgeon once wrote that for him, one of the marvels of Christmas was the willing and even joyful presence of the angels. It was remarkable, he thought , that they displayed no jealousy over the fact that God had chosen humanity to receive His son, instead of choosing the angels themselves to receive him.…

Once while teaching a Sunday School class to sixth graders I mentioned that it might be hard for us to imagine the situation of the Israelite slaves in Egypt, since we in America knew no one who owns another human being. Phillip raised his hand and said, ”Yes we do! A person can be adopted,…

Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that He may come and rain salvation upon you. (Hosea 10:12) The love of God is a steadfast love that lived in eternity but emerged onto a human being the moment…

Angels cannot preach the gospel. . .Presumably they do not hear the gospel the way we do: in their purity they have escaped the effects of sin and are unable to comprehend what it means to be lost. Rather, God has commanded the church to preach. . .Only man can speak salvation’s experience to man…(“Angels”,…

The arrival of the baby Jesus in Bethlehem was preceded by the arrival centuries earlier of the baby Isaac to Sarah in her old age. These two babies embrace the history and the progress of God’s people in getting to know and to love Him. Isaac’s birth from Sarah was a public miracle witnessed and…