I use the Modern English Version of the Bible. Scripture quotes with no cited source will be from the Logos edition of the Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014.) And in the same area there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their f...
I knew as a child that my parents’ actions–my father’s prayers, my mother’s devotion to reading and reciting scripture, and their focus on passing these things down to us– stemmed from a faith that was larger than they could fully express, though they tried. It truly was something ...