I wrote this essay, “Reasons for Optimism,” for the CGG Weekly of May 23, 2003. “A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” —Proverbs 17:22 Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Are you generally up or down? Is your glass half-full or half-empty? …
This RBV, about a prophecy against the Edomites, was first published on September 1, 2012. “. . . therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.” —Ezekiel 35:6 …
This first appeared on March 31, 2012. And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. —Genesis 27:16 This verse appears within the story of Jacob’s tricking of the elderly, blind Isaac into giving him the patriarchal …
