I enjoyed being a Bible Worker for 30 years. As one pastor told me, a Bible Worker gets to have all the fun of being a pastor without any of the headaches. Well I had my share of headaches and heartaches too, but I loved preaching and teaching and giving personal Bible studies. I loved … Continue reading –>
Imagine being captured as a young child or teenager, and being dragged away from your family, to be a slave to total strangers in a foreign country. If you are like me, you would feel resentful and would be seeking a way to escape. I would be tempted to wish harm on those who thought … Continue reading –>
Has Satan ever tried to ruin your day? Well let me tell you about when I ruined his day. Years ago, I was driving in the middle of the night across country to see my sister and see about a job. I had just quit a job that was not working out and had no … Continue reading –>
Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble. Job 3:10 NLT While our experience may be different than Job’s, many of us have been in situations, so dire, that we even question our existence. Wayne’s parents never married. Growing up, he learned to … Continue reading –>
In the third grade I was diagnosed with learning disabilities. I was told I could do the work; I just needed to try harder. Well, sometimes I was not just tired of trying harder, I was just tired of the work. Period. For example, in English we had to find the noun, verb and adjective … Continue reading –>
Monday’s section of this week’s lesson, reveals the relentless love of God. For me, here is the key verse. But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. Hosea 2:14 NLT I am so thankful for parents who understand this. I wish … Continue reading –>
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, [which] when he had … Continue reading –>
Friends, as I take a look at this Sabbath lesson’s “The Week at a Glance: What are the causes of the difficult times that we experience through our lives?” I am discouraged myself. I just got off the phone with a friend, who lost his son a year ago, and has had a wife in … Continue reading –>
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Peter 2:25 KJV The Bishop, or as some translations put it, “guardian” of our souls is Christ Himself. When I was a very young Bible worker, I worked in a three church district in Texas. … Continue reading –>
Friday’s section of this week’s lesson asks the question, “Once Jacob died, Joseph’s brothers feared that now Joseph would get revenge. What does this teach about the guilt that they still harbored? What does Joseph’s reaction teach us about forgiveness for the guilty?” Maybe the brothers had a hard time believing Joseph had forgiven them … Continue reading –>
