The Old Testament book of Esther is unique in that it is one of the only two books in theBiblenamed for women (the other, of course, isRuth). (Read below for some more fun and interesting facts on the Book of Esther). The author is unknown, but some biblical scholars conclude that ...
I remember my mother putting her head in her hands and saying, “And you sat there reading your Bible.” Not a question, a hushed statement, a sigh of incomprehension. Could her daughter still be as innocent as all that? The extra meetings stopped, the Bible Study group stopped, and the...
25 “How kind the Lord is,” she exclaimed, “to take away my disgrace of having no children!” 26 The following month God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, 27 to a virgin, Mary, engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. 28...
Because of the power to dispel darkness, the guru is thus named. — Advayataraka Upanishad, Verse 16 The term has been used in the earliest Vedic texts of Hinduism, and the guru and the gurukul, a school run by a guru, were an established tradition by the 1st millennium BCE. The ...
A star named Arrendale. It knew it existed but we didn’t notice it yet. God created it to shine. Kids were created to shine. When you notice, it unlocks a world of possibilities. — Paula Danielle Have you ever thought of all the things that need to fall into place to get from...
and you can leave me for the day if you like. Leave me a sleeping bag, and you can pick me up in the morning. At this point, it’s impossible to formulate even a Top Ten list of authors who have impacted me; there are just too many. The names on that list would range from th...
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A friend of mine named Tim was preaching recently and he said that thanks to what Jesus has done for us through his life, death, and resurrection we are called to be “a force of reconciliation.” I really like this image. At first glance it’s an odd juxtaposition. The word “force...
We know human life consists of three parts: first, physical life; second, mental and intellectual life; third, spiritual life. The second and third parts I fine in the Bible. The Bible has two portions, the Old Testament and the New Testament. You will marvel at the rich contents of the...
In 1976, Walter White, Jr., “a concerned patriot,” conducted an interview with a young Jew named Harold Rosenthal who was the assistant to Sen. Javits of New York. In the interview, later published as “The Hidden Tyranny”, the arrogant Rosenthal belligerently boasts (on tape) that ...