Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Today, my son and I went to the old port city of Jaffa, just south of Israel’s modern city of Tel Aviv. The place, of course, is famous for a lot of things, including visits by Alexander the Great and Napolean. It is however most famous as the location for a famous Bible story: Jonah…

When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according…

Jerusalem is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible. The first indirect reference is found in Genesis, when Abraham encounters Melchizedek, identified as the king of Salem. In Joshua 10, there is the first overt mention, as the fearless Israelite warrior Joshua defeats five regional kings, including the king of Jerusalem. The Israelis celebrated Jerusalem…

Around the time Mr. Nixon was having some trouble in the White House, I was sitting happily in elementary school. One day, the teacher announced that we would be learning something new: the Metric System. Having grown up calculating, say, how many quarts of Mountain Dew my buddies and I could drink on a hot…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners