“Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die” (Genesis 27:4).Isaac asked his oldest son Esau to go hunting and prepare his favorite meal so he could bless him....
“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg” (Luke 16:3).The shrewd manager in Jesus’s parable had mismanaged his master’s resources and was about ready to...
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” (2 Samuel 23:15).The Philistines were a constant thorn in David’s side. To add insult to injury, they set up shop in...
