Everyone was happy about a new baby! All of Elizabeth’s friends, family, and neighbors gathered and shared her joy. Never mind if they’d perhaps gossiped about her or derided her infertility during less charitable moments… Luke 1:57 When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. 58 Her […]
What’s the right thing to do? It’s often hard to know. The Bible admonishes us, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.” (Proverbs 14:12) Joseph was a righteous man and wanted to do what was theologically correct to maintain that righteousness. According to the law, […]
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As […]
Of all the unlikely people to receive Divine Intervention, it would probably have been Mary. She was a genuine nobody in a nowhere world called Nazareth. She was a simple Jewish girl with a simple Jewish faith and betrothed to a simple Jewish man with a simple righteousness that stands out in its pristine beauty […]
Have you ever been rendered speechless? Being at a loss for words is fairly common. Being suddenly deprived of your ability to speak is odd, if not otherworldly. Divine Intervention. The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and […]
Yeah, standing up for your faith in politically hostile environments can get you in trouble. Big trouble. King David knew it—Saul hunted him like an animal for 15 years before he finally became king. Daniel knew it—he was put in the lions’ den and saved by God’s hand. Jesus knew it—He was crucified but rose […]
God regrets things. But it doesn’t mean He’d been wrong or made a mistake. When your raw materials are sinful men, the process is ugly, but the final result will be worth it. God anoints Saul. He rejects Saul. All part of the process. “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has […]
A Promised Land means nothing if the Israelites move in and pollute it by sinning instead of displaying behavior becoming of Chosen People. So God issues Ten Commandments beginning with Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land […]
What does it take for you to believe something? Just reading it in print, or someone you regard saying that it’s so? Maybe having it pass the “fact-checker” test or someone on Twitter telling you that it’s true? Or sometimes, do you need to know it by someone showing you…in order to see it with […]
The most grievous and powerful plague upon Egypt was also the most important Divine Intervention for the ancient Hebrews. It’s a pattern of salvation and one set apart for remembrance through the ages: the plague against the firstborn in Egypt. Jews and Christians alike celebrate it as Passover, even today thousands of years later, because […]
