Daily Thoughts From God's Word

“The Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you...

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep” (22:1). And...

Hillary Clinton, a number of years ago, wrote her book (I suppose she wrote it rather than having a ghost writer do the work but who...

The Lord had the people of Israel encamp before the Red Sea knowing “Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the...

The beginning of months, i.e., the beginning of the year for Israel: the Passover. The Lord instructed Israel, “And when your children...

There’s a fascinating juxtaposition, here. God sent Moses to the pharaoh and prepared Moses for how things would go: “Though I multiply...

Something a little different, today. A number of years ago, I offered various thoughts from these chapters in Exodus about likely...

Jacob and his entire family arrive in Egypt, and Jacob has a meeting with the pharaoh. With the pharaoh’s approval, “Joseph settled his...

Jacob’s heartbreak seems just to get worse and worse. Now commanded to return to Canaan without Benjamin, the brothers say to Joseph,...

God uses all sorts of means in order to accomplish his purposes. The cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker had angered the...

The Joseph stories begin and, if ever there was a demonstration of God’s good and overriding providence on behalf of his people, here it...

People do stupid things. People do unbelievable things. People do wrong and sinful things. All of us do. And, then, there are Esau and...

I know I have noted it before but I am always conscious of the fact that Judaism and Christianity are religions of history. The Bible is...

“Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king...

Relationships. Acquaintances. The people we associate with. The friends we keep. These things matter. It’s sort of an auxiliary or...