Rahab of Jericho
We had heard what the Israelites were doing to the people on the other side of the Jordan. Other cities had fallen to their army, and we feared the same fate.
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Hannah
You know what it means for a woman in these days not to have a child. A son would be best, of course, but even a daughter would mean that I was not cursed by God.
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Alternate Truths
In the eyes of Elijah, a prophet of God, Ahav was not a good king. God withheld the rain for three years to punish him for worshiping Baal with Queen Jezebel. When God was ready to let it rain again, he called Elijah to set up a contest between God’s prophet and Baal’s 450 priests.
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Psalm 27
The week before was my Bar Mitzvah, so that day I went with my father to the Temple was the first time I was allowed to enter the Temple itself, to actually watch the priest offer the sacrifice.
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Flour and Oil
With no rain, the first year of the drought the harvest was smaller than usual. They kept aside a smaller amount of grain to plant in the spring and less for them to eat until the next fall. Their neighbors suffered the same problem.
Raising Samuel
Raising a child at my age was not exactly what I had in mind. My boys were grown, and, to be honest, I hadn’t done a very good job with them. When my wife died at the birth of the second one, I guess I didn’t choose well for a second wife.
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Naaman and Pride
This is one of those stories you may have learned in Sunday School, along with David and Goliath or Noah and the Ark. It’s a straightforward story, with a simple message. Until Naaman is willing to swallow his pride, he’s not going to be healed.
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Balaam and the Donkey
King Balak saw what happened to the Ammonites and sent messengers to Balaam at Pethor, near the Euphrates River. In part, he told them to say, “A people has come out of Egypt; they cover the face of the land and have settled next to me. Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me.”
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Ezekiel’s Dry Bones
I was young when the battle took place in the valley just over the hill from our fields. We were just beginning to harvest when we saw the armies coming. We fled and hid in a cave.
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Mrs. Noah and Sarah
We celebrate our forefathers in the faith for the decisions they made, but those decisions affected other people, people who had no choice in the decision, but who had to go along with it.
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Let My People Go
Exodus 14:10-31 I don’t know if I can help you understand how absolutely terrifying the last several weeks had been. […]
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Birthright and Blessing
So what’s it like to grow up as the child of the promise? To be honest, I don’t know. I was never the child of the promise because I was the second born, the younger. …
