A Divided House

Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.  They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law…

Silence of the Lambs (6)

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.”  Lamentations 3:24  NASB My portion – When everything is stripped away, what sustains you?  That’s the kind of question Job had to ask himself.  It’s the same question the people of Israel needed to ask when Babylon erased their world.  Maybe it’s our question as…

Us and Them

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  Galatians 3:28  NIV Neither – The Italian study tours are finished.  Everyone has gone home.  Back to the usual way of living.  Back to the comfortable world of what has always been.  But…