Keep Praying, Stay Strong!

 Today's episode is all about finding strength in ourselves and then in others when we ourselves grow too tired to carry on. In Exodus, we find Moses standing on a hill with his arms raised in prayer so that the Israelites would triumph over the Amalekites. But as Moses grew tired and lowered his arms, the Amalekites would gain the upper hand. So Aaron and Hur who were both with Moses, found...

In the Gospel reading from Luke 10: 1-9, Jesus appoints 72 disciples to travel in pairs to go to all of the towns He intends to visit. He tells them to bring nothing with them as they are sent out like "lambs among the wolves". He tells them to stay wherever they are invited to stay and to eat and drink whatever is served as they go about curing the sick. They are not to move to other ho...

In the Gospel reading from Luke 11: 5-13, Jesus tells his disciples about a man who had a friend who showed up one night very late and the man had nothing to offer him to eat. So the man went to a neighbor's house and knocked. When his neighor asked what he wanted, the man asked to borrow 3 loaves of bread. His neighbor said he and his family were already in bed so he was not going to get up...

In today's reading from the Book of Ruth, we read that Ruth has left her homeland and everything she knows behind after the death of her husband. Ruth's mother-in-law, Naomi, chooses to go back to her own homeland and Ruth goes with her to help take care of her even though Ruth knows that she herself will not be accepted there. She decides to go anyway simply to be of service to Naomi an...

Just when you might be thinking that there is no way God can help in a difficult time because all of the ways you can think of to solve a problem have failed, the solution can show up anyway. When the Israelites were allowed to return to their homeland under King Darius of Persia, they wondered how on earth they would ever be able to rebuild what had been destroyed. Darius was a pagan and didn&apo...