Tag: Lord
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The Curse of Disease and Death – 2
Moses, Privilege of the Wilderness In part one of this series about our attitude toward disease and death we briefly examined a story from the oldest book of the Bible, Job. Job was well-to-do, he had then lost nearly everything including his health, yet he blessed the Lord. Today we examine part of a too-familiar story…
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Padiddle
Padiddle ‘Padiddle,’ it came to me as I was driving home at dusk one evening. Padiddle, where did that come from? Then I remembered. I had not grown up with it, for our family had played other travel games in the car. In fact, as I observed a car in traffic with no lights on…
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Balaam – Inauguration of a Politician’s Prophet – 2
Previously For those of you who missed Part 1 of our story of Balaam, we began by noting Balaam’s best inaugural speech in Numbers 24, to which we will return chronologically in Part 3. Now turning back to some background and the beginning of our story, King Balak of Moab sent diplomats to Balaam to…
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