Take Care Lest You Forget

"And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you--with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig,...

A Table In The Presence Of My Enemies

I recently experienced a few months of physical incapacity due to a mysterious condition that caused sudden blood pressure drops, chest pains, dizziness and faintness.  After visiting many doctors and having many tests run, I was still no closer to knowing the cause of my illness; in fact, every test proved that I was very...

Of Weeds and Graves

  So the Lord God banished (mankind) from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Genesis 3:23 Genesis 2:4-22 describes how, in the Garden of Eden, life sprang up from the ground.  Man was made from it, animals were made from it, plants grew up from it. Water sprung...

Do not be distressed…

Genesis 45:4-5 "...do not be distressed and angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you." When Joseph said this to his brothers, who had sold him into slavery many years before, it was the ultimate letting off the hook. Joseph saw what we...

Broad Places

Genesis 26:19-22 gives the account of Isaac's herdsmen quarreling with the Philistines over some wells he had dug. He named those wells "Esek," or "Dispute," and "Sitnah," or "Opposition."  When he finally dug a well that they didn't quarrel over, he named it "Rehoboth."  One might logically suppose that this name means something like "peace,"...