“The LORD called to [Moses] out of the mountain, saying, ‘Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself’” (Exodus 19:3-4). God spoke these words to Moses about three months after He freed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. Now that they were delivered safely out of Egypt’s predatorial grip they could take a sigh of relief and refle

After the Rough Winter, Spring! “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 ESV It may just be me, but I think we endured a brutal Ohio winter this year. Some of the old-timers here in Central Ohio told me they haven’t experienced a bitter, cold winter

Francis, 266th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church The following biographical information, with a few edits, comes from an article...