Life is rarely considerate. Often life will barge in. You know the feeling, while stresses are piling up … here comes another. We know this to be true; we might even joke about it, “bad things happen in threes… what is next?” When life is hard, we can count on it being interrupted yet again with more difficulty. In Mark 5, we read of Jairus. Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, comes to Jesus with grave urgency, “My little daughter is at the point of death…” (Mark 5:23). He pl

Day by day, the nation of Israel was straying from its proper place. Slowly, it would become more apparent - this is not the kingdom of priests nor the holy nation they were called to be (Ex 19:5-6). Slowly, sin and deceitfulness were seeping into the hearts of a people whose whole heart was to be devoted to their God (Deut 6:5). Slowly, a sickness so profound that it possessed no remedy (2 Chron 36:15-16) was overtaking God’s people. It was in these days that God would be he

A lot had changed. His status changed. His home changed. His day-to-day changed. Once in the pomp of Egyptian royalty, now tending to the flocks of his father-in-law. Moses, after the altercation in which he struck an Egyptian, was refused by the Hebrews and hunted by Pharaoh (formerly a grandfather to him), had a lot change for him. Such a radical shift in life might lead someone to think they have lost power, influence, and the potential to serve. We know Moses would go on