Tag: family

  • Three Widows & a Widower

    Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…

  • Remember the Widows

    1 Timothy 5:5  She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day… In only a century since the millennia of the Bible, relationships of the family have been overturned. All older than sixteen require automobiles and all older than sixty-six need to be put…

  • Distracted from Relationship

    What is the one thing that makes Christianity different from every other religion? In a word: Relationship. We have a relationship with the Living God through Christ Jesus our Lord. What is the one thing making Christians look like everyone else in this world? In a convicting word: LACK of Relationship. Any look at Jesus’…

    The Last Supper scene staged by Rembrandt. Actually the Twelve Apostles in customary 1st century Jewish custom were 'reclined at table.'