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For two months after their miraculous departure from Egypt, the Israelites had been traveling through barren wilderness. Finally they arrived at Mt. Sinai, where they set up camp. Even as the...
What does Jesus mean when he refers to “practicing your piety”?
Every now and then, people ask me how a pastor in Southern California ended up serving in a family foundation in Texas. Usually, I explain how much I admired the work of the...
God had promised to give Abraham the land of Canaan, and so he left everything behind to go to that land. But during his lifetime, he was only a stranger and foreigner in...
Today, we return to the Letter to the Ephesians. If you've joined the Daily Reflections in the last month, I should explain that I began a close study of Ephesians in June, the...
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...
Mark 10:17-27 is one of those passages in the Gospels that makes most of us terribly uncomfortable. Like the man who asked Jesus how he might inherit eternal life, we also have “many possessions.”
