Text: Genesis 21:14-20
Synopsis: When Hagar and her son Ishmael were dying of thirst in the desert, Ishmael cried out and God heard him, coming to their assistance. The story is notable in that Hagar, the mother, was weeping, but the passage does not tell us that her voice was heard. There was something about the [...]
Text: Exodus 10:27-11:8
Synopsis: The first nine plagues sent against Pharaoh and Egypt were the river turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, murrain of beasts, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness. It was an almost comical situation up to this point - though annoying, none of the plagues was life-threatening. However, after Pharaoh grew tired of the game everything turned deadly serious. Pharaoh chose to [...]
Text: Job 23:1-10, Psalm 1:1-6
Synopsis: The Bible declares that there are some things God does not know: another god, for example (Isaiah 44:8), or sin (II Corinthians 5:21). However, God knows the way of the righteous, so no matter what road a child of God finds himself on he can rest confident in the knowledge that God [...]