The psalmist mentions several major offenses that the Israelites at the base of Mount Sinai commit. Then he dramatically sings about how Moses stands in the breach to change God’s mind...

How does your body respond when you recite today’s psalm aloud with sincerity and gusto? You’ve not read it yet? Try it now before you continue reading the rest of this...

In the four verses from Exodus 32, Moses builds a convincing case that averts God’s wrath against the Israelites. By mentioning God’s powerful involvement and mighty intervention in bringing the people...

What does God’s monologue to Moses in today’s scripture remind you of? Does it sound like the prologue of a judge who is about to sentence a group of lawbreakers? Or...

The Israelites who follow Moses out of Egypt have experienced some significant traumas! During the liberation process from the oppressive Pharaoh, they have crossed the parted Red Sea and witnessed the...

I suppose everybody has a favorite house. My childhood memories still gather in the spacious, rambling rooms of my aunt’s home. My eye roams from the vastness of the wraparound porch,...

Jesus’ journey has at last brought him to Jerusalem. Daily he teaches in the Temple courtyard where disciples would gather around their various rabbis to hear the word of God interpreted,...

I often wonder if Paul’s contemporaries doubted his sanity; or, at the least, wondered that he made up what he said had happened to him. “You say you met this Jesus...

Paul, an extremely righteous man under the law, observed all the commandments. His outrage with the people claiming that Messiah had come led him to persecute them. But then something happened...

Nowhere in scripture is the unity and order of God’s creation more eloquently displayed than in Psalm 19. Nature and humanity exist in perfect harmony. For humanity’s part, the law of...