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  • Genesis 46: Leaving Canaan

    Genesis 46: Leaving Canaan

    The wagons from Egypt arrive to carry everyone out of the wilderness. Israel offers sacrifices to God at the place Abraham planted the Tamarisk tree called Beersheba. God communicates with him assurances about going to Egypt. God tells Israel that his family will transform into a Nation. He promises to bring them back out again,…

  • 1776

    One of the fiercest battle cries leading up to war of independence from Britain in the American colonies was “no taxation without representation.” America won the war and we will celebrate our Nation’s 250th birthday year. Yet, when our forefathers wrote up the new voting guidelines, they initially only included the English-speaking, white, land-owning Protestant…

  • John 4: Well

    In this chapter, Jesus and his disciples travel by foot from Judea to Galilee. These are districts in Israel, and between them is an area called Samaria. The Samaritans had religious practices that were different than the other areas. They went to Mt. Horeb, the location God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, to pray while…

  • Neighborly

    Today I want to talk about our Spanish-speaking neighbors to the South. Not Mexico, the literal neighbors that live next door to us on our southside. They have lived there ever since we moved into the house nearly 10 years ago.  The adults don’t speak much English, but they’re nice, and we have had a…

  • Insomnia

    If you listen to conservative news commentators, there is a strong insistence against anything “woke”. What is it to be “woke“ and why are certain people so strongly against it? Basically, the term means a person who has recently become aware of systematic racism, as in “awoken” to a problem that has been occurring for…