Your Father’s Shoulders

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes,    with the princes of … Read more

A festival or a pilgrimage?

Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me. -Exodus 23:14 Dear members and friends, According to Exodus, God commands that people … Read more

Navigating The Bible

Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow so … Read more

It could have been prevented.

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted … Read more

Feeling Empathy

You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 23:9  … Read more

God’s Law and a Hardened Heart

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.” -Matthew 19:8  … Read more

A Mother’s Strength

I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. -Psalm 131:2  Dear … Read more

Can we know God’s thoughts?

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. -Isaiah 55:9  … Read more

Our Will vs. God’s Will

Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance … Read more

Did Jesus have to die?

“The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise … Read more