Nehemiah and his brother took the opportunity during the moment of quiet to explore the gardens.  This was not actually prohibited but many in the Jewish community had frowned on any type of over contact with the gentiles.  A bright blue sky and beautiful plants inspired the boys and filled them with great joy. …

      Jana was well known around town.  You could see her pushing a shopping cart filled with her life belongings including a great deal of equipment to care for the twins that she was sure that she was carrying.  From time-to-time, things would happen, and all of those belongings would vanish, and Jana would start…

 The apostle John referred to himself as the “one Jesus loved.”  What an identity?  How you identify yourself will do much to shape the direction of your life.  In an interesting study, researchers took a group of men and women and randomly divided them into two groups.  First, they did a baseline eye test on…

Nehemiah had been very young when he and his father had been taken to Susa.  His father had been a stone worker and had done much work for the empire.  Hacaliah was very talented with all sorts of stonework.  He knew the correct tools to work with harder or softer stones.  He truly was a…