Have you ever come across one of the genealogies in the Bible and mentally thrown up your hands, as if to say “how could this possibly be helpful?” This week in my daily Bible reading I read through the genealogy from Noah to Abraham in Genesis 11.  It sparked up SOOO […]

HI , I live in Arizona, where we’ve been having record heat. Every day in July topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius). No matter how you measure it, that’s hot! So the family and I got away from the heat at the end of the month. We took a […]

Since I live in the desert of Arizona, last month was brutally hot. It’s normally hot in July, but this was extra special. The average day was 113 degrees Fahrenheit and the average overnight low was 93 degrees. Strictly speaking, we are in monsoon season. That’s the time of year […]

It’s a phenomenon that we mark every year.  And every year it draws comments about the timing. But this year really takes the cake! I’m talking about the advent of Christmas decorations in stores. I had to run a quick errand to Costco yesterday (quick – or cheap – trips […]

Have you ever started out down a path, thinking it was a good direction to go, only to find out (later) that it had a ton of unadvertised requirements? Maybe if you’d know about all the consequences up front, you’d have made a different choice? That moment of discovery is sort […]

Although it can seem fantastical when you read.  Especially in the Old Testament.  Giants, floods, resurrections, skeleton armies…  It reads like a high fantasy story, not the word of God’s word.  It’s really important for the Bible Student to find a path to the reality of what they read. For […]