Matthew 4:18-19 (The Message): "Walking along the beach of Lake Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers: Simon (later called Peter) and Andrew. They were fishing, throwing their nets into the lake. It was their regular work. Jesus said to them, 'Come with me. I'll make a new...
Was there a time when you were a child and you wanted a cookie but your mother said you couldn't have one? Did you sneak around when she wasn't there and get one thinking that your mother would not know you got one? The psalmist wrote about someone like this: Psalm...
In the 18th century, the U. S. Congress once issued a special edition of Thomas Jefferson's Bible. It was a simple copy of our Bible with all references to the supernatural eliminated. Jefferson, in selecting, had confined himself solely to the moral teachings of...
Back in the 1970's my home town started a festival called Old Joe Clark Days. It honored the man from there who was a bluegrass performer at Renfro Valley, Kentucky for many years. Since then the name of the celebration was changed to the Apple Festival. A civic...
"And all the people saw the thunderings, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off, and said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest...
In the fourth chapter of John we find an account of Jesus and his disciples in Samaria. He sends his disciples for food while he stays at the well. After a while a woman comes to get water. Jesus asks for a drink, but we find that the woman is really the thirsty one....
We are used to seeing animals come onto our property. We have a large yard and a pasture where we used to keep cattle. We normally see cats, dogs, squirrels and rabbits. We have a family of groundhogs living in our barn. A time or two we have seen a deer bouncing...
"Then Solomon said, "The Lord said he would live in the dark cloud." (2 Chronicles 6:1 NCV) [1] "He made a darkness His hiding place , b His 1 canopy around Him, Darkness of waters , thick clouds of the skies." (Psalm 18:11 NASB95) [2] Many people, even Christians, go...
"Nothing preaches better than the ant and she says nothing." (Japanese Proverb [1]) I remember years ago seeing advertisements for ant farms on the back of comic books and in catalogs. I never got one, but I have seen ants in nature. The above proverb is true that you...
"Now this is what the Lord says- the One who created you, Jacob, and the One who formed you, Israel- "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass? Through...