For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those…

So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” 3 Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be…

He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. You may think it strange that Judah was chosen to be an intermediary between Joseph and his father. After…

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. One of my favorite scenes in the movie Hook is when the mother is reunited with her children. It is very touching after the drama to see a…

“Good Christian men rejoice…” C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity of the term “Christian” as an adjective meaning a good person who treats others well. The meaning of Christian is somewhat closer to the above verses from Peter, who learned a thing or two about Christian behavior himself. Peter wrote to the churches under his care that there will…

 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”  You may know people who, when you ask them what time it is, they tell you how to…