Tuesday, January 9, 2007

The Red Sea

Most of us still have fathers, mothers, sisters or brothers who got so far as the Red Sea, turned around, saw their former sins (Egyptians) chasing them on horseback, panicked, gave up, and cried out:
"Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Across the Jordan; A Cross, the Jordan

On the morning of December 30th, 2006, I sat down to my kitchen table with my big ceramic mug from Ms. Gilda Hansen, coffee from my new french press, my compact, navy blue NKJV, and prayed a prayer of amazement and thanksgiving as I read the last verses of the book of Malachi, thereby completing my first full reading of the Old Testament, which thus marks my completion of my first full reading of