THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE

If the Bible stopped at Daniel Chapter 11, we would not hear the songs that Bethel Mountain Band is going to sing. I don’t know what they’d sing about instead: maybe chicken soup or halibut fishing. Their next songs, however, are about eternal life, heaven, whatever...

IN THE HOLLOW OF GOD’S HAND: A Book Review

I didn’t realize until this week that their graves are in the foreground every time I look out the window of my office toward Mt. Hood. But after reading about Edd and Alice Yoder in the recently-published book, In The Hollow of God’s Hand, by their granddaughter,...

“Oh, Have You Not Heard…?”

You know about those parts of the Bible that are very hard to read, because they’re so full of details like Who begat who? and how this kind of sacrifice or ritual is to be carried out, and how that curtain is to be made and how many rings it is to hang from? So that...

The Treasures We Carry Homeward

From Ezra 8: 21-36 “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the Lord…. Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord.”  Ezra 8: 28-29a This is not a very familiar passage from a very familiar part of the Bible. So, who...