Across millennia Bible readers have shuddered, particularly Old Testament readers. Who can read translated Hebrew names with ease? Araunah, Jeshebeah and Joshbekasah are but a few to trip over.
Joseph . . . did what the Lord's angel had told him to do.
What if you follow a star and find a stable? What happens when all of a sudden, after thinking that something grand and glorious awaits, you end up in a backyard...
So Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth . . . to Bethlehem. He went there to register with Mary . . .
Be holy as I AM holy. (Leviticus 11:44) This command is strong. And, not to be diluted. Holiness is the call of truth and virtue.
Recently I had the honor to sit with an elderly gent, he was well past his three score years and ten. He opened his heart.
The most comforting of David's psalms were pressed out by suffering. (anon) The Psalms are still alive.
'To laugh often and much: to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false...
Lawlessness: Take away all thought that God sees and hears, and you have removed the underlying basis upon which morality itself is to be built up.
The teachings of the pleasures of this world far outweigh any eternal reality. The call to separation few hear, and even fewer understand.
