by Mathew Swora | Aug 10, 2018
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,...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 7, 2018
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...
by Mathew Swora | Jul 31, 2018
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...
by Mathew Swora | Jul 24, 2018
Acts 28: 1-16 From: Centurion Gaius Julius Antipor, Augustan Regiment in Caesarea, Palestine, writing from Appian Forum, Italy, on the Twenty-First day of Februarium, 810th Year from Rome’s Founding To: Officer in charge of Receiving and Detaining Prisoners,...
by Mathew Swora | Jul 10, 2018
from Daniel 6 My earliest childhood memory, from when I was but three years old, is of my Father holding me in the darkness of midnight, rocking me, stroking my head and telling me that everything was all right, that I was safe, and that I could stop screaming. “But...
by Mathew Swora | Jun 19, 2018
Daniel 4: “I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.” What Constitutes Crazy? What Constitutes Sanity? What is the Gift for us from this part of Israel’s...
