God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived…

            A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully        and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.  Everyone loves a rags to riches story. Movies are made about them. The sad ones are when they become a rags to riches to rags story because the recipient of the riches lacked wisdom. In this proverb,…

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. “I know who I am”. That is a statement from a person who is comfortable in…

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. Ernest Hemingway was famous for spare, to the point writing that trimmed the fat with few words. Hemingway would have appreciated…

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he…

5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. Parents, teachers, and even pastors, know that about the time you are tired of saying the same thing over and over, the people you are speaking to are…