JOCOBED AND MIRIAM [18] Read Exodus 1:1–2:10 When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to...

Today I came across a tale of courage in the face of persecution and grave danger. It involves a man who was drafted into the Japanese army near the close of the war. He said he didn't consider refusing the mandatory service, not because it would have been futile but because, as he put it, the Bible...

JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR Read Genesis 39 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh … bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there … And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand. Genesis 39:1,3...