Dear Friends, The Sea of Galilee is 685 feet below sea level, the lowest freshwater body of water in the world. It sits in the Jordan Rift, a fault zone with steep hills and mountains all around it. The Mediterranean Ocean is only 27 miles to the west. West winds blow off the Ocean and […]
A Word of Grace
A Word of Grace – September 4, 2017
Dear Friends, I collected another birthday this weekend. I have a lot of them now, enough to make comparisons, though none of them are rejects. Birthdays don’t fare so well in Scripture. There are only two birthday celebrations mentioned and in one Pharaoh hanged his chief baker and in the other King Herod decapitated John […]
A Word of Grace – August 29, 2017
Dear Friends, This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the […]
A Word of Grace – August 21, 2017
Dear Friends, The lamp of the Lord had not gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of the Lord was. Then the Lord called Samuel . . . He was afraid to tell Eli the vision, but Eli called to him and said, ‘ Samuel, my […]
A Word of Grace – August 7, 2017
Dear Friends, So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then Festus gave the order and Paul was brought in (Acts 25:23). Among the special hells experienced on this earth surely must be having […]