Ecclesiastes 12:10

  Luke 15 is the ‘lost’ chapter of the Bible.   It isn’t missing from the scripture but rather it consists of three parables that deal with lost things. A shepherd that has lost a sheep, a woman who has lost a treasure, a father that has lost a son. The chapter emphasizes the joy one has in finding that which was lost because of it of how dear it should be to us.   It starts however with a different attitude. Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him. Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." Luke 15:1-2   The ‘holy’ people couldn’t help but look down on Jesus because of his audience. Jesus was a friend to the very people a prophet should know better than to associate with. So Jesus attempts to adjust their attitude. In each parable, the focus isn’t what you have but what is lost. Those ‘older brothers’ who think they are better and have l...

  Samuel Morse was a lot of things. He was one of the foremost artists of the early 1800 s, painting portraits for some of the most important people of the day. He was also America's first camera buff, popularizing it in America. He was a political radical, running unsuccessfully for mayor of New York and his anti-Catholic writings helped stir up hatred for immigrants. Yet he is known for the invention that helped launch an age of instant communication, the telegraph.   Morse knew how important the telegraph could be but no one in Congress did. He needed their funds to put in the lines necessary to take the device to its fullest potential. Morse knew how to make them listen.     He built a forty-mile line between Washington and Baltimore. It happened that year the Democratic convention was in Baltimore. Getting up to the minute updates on that year’s wild nomination process, that would eventually select a dark horse candidate James Polk, was something pol...

  Exodus doesn’t tell us the name of the pharaoh that Moses opposed. (Scholars have debated this riddle ever since.) Here is the most powerful man on earth at the time and it never uses his name.     Yet it does tell us the name of the two midwives that refuse to listen to that pharaoh and put to death the baby boys of the Israelites. Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other was named Puah; and he said, "When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live . Exodus 1:15-17    The nation was promoting these ‘late term abortions’ yet these women refused. And they were remembered for their courage.   In our world today it tend to work the other way. S...

Secondary Sources Select the other book the events are mentioned in The sun standing still for a day in the book of Joshua? Numbers Book of Jashar Book of the Wars of the LORD Book of Deeds of the Lord The greatness of Mordaci found in the book of Esther? The Book of Empires The Epic of the Jews The Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia The life and times of Xerus The acts of Jehoshaphat found in 2nd Chronicles? The annals of Jehu The Book of the Kings of Judah The Might of the Kings Who's Who is Palestine The acts of King David found in 1st Chronicles The Chronicles of Nathan the prophet Story of Solomon's father The Psalm of the Sheppard The tale of Gilgamesh The Acts of Rehoboam in 2nd Chronicles The Book of Kings of Israel The Acts of the Kings The Divided Kingdom Illustrated The records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the Seer Hezekiah's Prayer for deliverance in 2nd Kings 18 The writing of Sennacherib The Book Of...