Our Biblical heroes can easily become characters to emulate, and they begin to stand alone in our brains as moral examples when torn from the fabric of the rest of the Scripture. I don’t remember teachers showing me, as a child, how the stories and people of the Bible pointed to the promised Jesus. I…
The text I’m writing about is Exodus 16:1-17:7 in the New Living Translation. The boys and I talked about this particular reading, and we all had some questions and observations. I am sure I could spend some time in commentaries to find “the answers” and yet I sometimes like to sit with the questions and…
Peter was a changed man. I heard his words in my spirit this morning, and could sense the heavy truth of his words completely infused with the Word and Truth Himself. Peter, who had led the charge against the idea of a suffering Messiah, came to see suffering as a hallmark of walking in the…