What an extraordinary story! After Jacob had done everything he could to prepare for his meeting with Esau, a "man" appeared in the wilderness and wrestled with Jacob for a whole night. It turned...
As Jacob headed homeward to face his estranged brother, Esau, he was understandably worried. Esau had, after all, promised to kill him...
As Jacob and his wives were preparing to sneak away from their father, Laban, Rachel took her father's household idols. These statues were common in Ancient Near Eastern homes and were believed to...
God called Abraham, not only to bless him and his family, but also so that all families of the earth might be...
Jacob's family was in a mess. First, one of his wives pleads with him to become pregnant, and he becomes furious with her. Then she offers her servant to Jacob as another wife...
In Genesis 29, Jacob sought to marry his cousin Rachel, but ended up first marrying her sister Leah because of the trickery of his uncle Laban. When Jacob asked why Laban fooled him into marrying...
Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed!Christians confess that Christ is risen, not only in the hearts of the faithful, and not merely as some nice religious image, but truly and physically. On...
The whole premise behind the organization that calls itself "The High Calling" is that we serve God through our daily work. It's the idea that the Church is not a gathering of believers...
Genesis records two incidents in which Abraham misrepresented the identity of his wife, Sarah, claiming that she was his sister (Gen. 12:10-20; 20:1-18). This half-truth was a result of Abraham's...
When famine struck the land of Canaan in the time of Abraham, he took his household to Egypt. When, once again, a severe famine devastated the land, Isaac also took his family to...
Two thousand years ago in Capernaum, the temple tax collectors approach the disciple Peter and ask if his teacher pays the temple tax required of each male over 20 years of age (Matt. 17:24-27)....
“What’s that building?” she asks. “Which one?” I ask. “The dark one there.” She points. “The one with the strange angles that looks like it is leaning.” She points at a gleaming glass-façade.....
Art Linkletter was right. Kid's say the darndest things. And they say the darndest things about God sometimes. If I close my eyes and think, I can remember a lot of the things...
Though Esau and Jacob were twins, Esau was born first, and therefore received the "birthright" of the firstborn son. Someday, when his father's inheritance was divided among his children, Esau...
The promise God had once made to Hagar (Gen. 16:10), the mother of Ishmael, was now coming true. He would indeed be the father of many. Moreover, even as an angel prophesied of...
I didn't experience the death of someone I knew well until I was in high school, when my favorite English teacher died suddenly of a heart attack. It was a devastating time of...
Genesis 24 tells the story of how Rebekah became Isaac's wife. As was common in her culture, she was committed to Isaac by the men in her family. Yet when her family wanted...
I watched a middle-age lady kneel on the floor in front of a long velvet skirt, her mouth bristling with pins. She was impeccably dressed in a blue St. John's knit suit, a...
Indeed, the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way: leading him to the land of promise, giving him a son even in his old age, protecting him from the implications of his unbelief...
On a regular basis, I run what I call "make-happy" programs on my computer. Antivirus and other software programs check for threats...
