Photo Credit: Glen Bowman via Flickr [dropcaps style='bold']I[/dropcaps]n the midst of new beginnings, we can be afraid to launch. We really need someone to push us off the diving board into the deep end. That fear, though, can occur in quiet ways. It causes us from getting wet. You...
Scripture: “Now, stay strong and steady. Obediently do everything written in the Book of The Revelation of Moses—don’t miss a detail. Don’t get mixed up with the nations that are still around. Don’t so much as speak the names of their gods or swear by them. And by all means don’t...
Scripture: "Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went off with the noblemen from Moab. As he was going, though, God’s anger flared. The angel of God stood in the road to block his way. Balaam was riding his donkey, accompanied by his two servants. When the donkey saw...
Scripture: "Next day, out on the high seas again and badly damaged now by the storm, we dumped the cargo overboard. The third day the sailors lightened the ship further by throwing off all the tackle and provisions. It had been many days since we had seen either sun or...
Scripture: "Years before, Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought to life, 'Leave here and go, you and your family, and live someplace else. God has ordered a famine in the land; it will last for seven years.' The woman did what the Holy Man told her and left....
Scripture: "'My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline, but don’t be crushed by it either. It’s the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects.' God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t...
Scripture: "He divided the three hundred men into three companies. He gave each man a trumpet and an empty jar, with a torch in the jar. He said, 'Watch me and do what I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly what I do. When...
Scripture: "The people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai and cooked up a ruse. They posed as travelers: their donkeys loaded with patched sacks and mended wineskins, threadbare sandals on their feet, tattered clothes on their bodies, nothing but dry crusts and crumbs for food....
Scripture: "Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled. 'Please, my lord,' one of them began, 'this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house. Three days later this woman...
Scripture: "One day during harvest, the Three parted from the Thirty and joined David at the Cave of Adullam. A squad of Philistines had set up camp in the Valley of Rephaim. While David was holed up in the Cave, the Philistines had their base camp in Bethlehem. David had...
Scripture: "Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute! Don’t...
Scripture: "Late that day he said to them, 'Let’s go across to the other side.' They took him in the boat as he was. Other boats came along. A huge storm came up. Waves poured into the boat, threatening to sink it. And Jesus was in the stern, head on...