No matter how thorny your situation is, there is a way out. By looking in the high places, going where others do not go, and by observing whatever is around you… maybe just sheep and some scrub brushes… you can find an answer. Listen, can you hear it?
…what would happen if we wrote down our prayers instead of just reading or mentally saying them? What if we wrote to God as a friend, not as a great being in the sky who is unknowable?
Whether you are great or small, out of you pours a river of living water. How can you learn as much about it as possible so you can help it on its way?
Ben-Yosef said the fabrics, which vary widely in weaving style, color and ornamentation, provide “new and important information” about the Edomites, the descendants of Esau who often fought against the Israelites and mined in Timna.
What does it take for the yeast in our lives to create an out-of-control oozing lump?
We are a desiring people. There is passion, preference, yearning in our own hearts, and in the divine heart too.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.
John 15:1-11 On some Sunday mornings I groan under the burden of participating in the prayers of our communal worship. Rather than actually praying I
When we encounter problems in life, many of us are dead set on showing others how impressively we can engineer our way out of it, when maybe the thing to do all along was to “let the air out of our own tires”
As we enter Lent, we have to remember that temptation is all around, and seduces by offering the easy way, the shortcut. It’s not the big things that usually tempt us—it’s the little ones.