Even though most of his friends denied he ever said it, history credits P.T. Barnum for the line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,”. Here’s something he did say about […]
Stealing your brother’s birthright can be tricky business and justice between brothers can be swift and especially cruel. Because of the deceit involved in stealing his birthright, Esau vowed he […]
A container of Kentucky Fried Chicken appeared to be dancing in the middle of the dark street, with a life of its own, so we stopped to investigate. Out of […]
Before this story turns tragically dark in telling of the banishment of Hagar and Ishmael, it is uproariously funny. When Abram and Sarai are told the news they will bear […]
John Claypool called his book on the major Old Testament characters, Glad Reunion.[1] What he meant by that is these heroes from the Old Testament are our spiritual ancestors. In […]
We begin a journey today through the marvelously rich stories of the Bible’s first book of stories. Since Muslims, Jews and Christians all lay claim to some of these same […]
Forty years earlier, David responded to the death of Saul and Jonathan in a magnificent fashion by howling painfully and poetically unto God about the beauty of them that was […]
Undoubtedly, the second half of life is different than the first half. Carl Jung, the cartographer of the journey we take in life, mapped this age by contrasting the first […]
There’s an ancient norm from the Bible that a full life is measured as “three score and ten years” (that’s 70 years in Shakespearean math) So, this stage of young […]
Imago Dei is the theological term to describe we are created in the image of God.. The ancients knew about the power of identity, the power of one knowing who […]