Witness – Edith M. Humphrey

Light from the Old Testament Upon the Acts, Episode 4: Witnessing to Jesus

Acts 2:22-36; Psalm 15 LXX/16:8-11; Psalm 109 LXX/10:1; Luke 24:13-45; Phil. 2:5-11, 2 Peter 1:19 In this past week, we rejoiced in God’s promise of Pentecost, and the enlivening of the apostles when the Holy Spirit made the fishermen “most wise.” We have a tendency, though, to gloss over a major part of the firstContinue reading “Light from the Old Testament Upon the Acts, Episode 4: Witnessing to Jesus”

Light from the Readable Books 26: Maccabean War and Peace, Martyrdom and Resurrection

1 Maccabees 9:24-16:24; 2 Maccabees 7; 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms) 5:4; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 8:4; Ezekiel 34:27; Hebrews 12; Romans 4:17 We have already devoted two episodes to the first nine chapters of 1 Maccabees. There we saw the witness of the patriarch Mattathias, and the prowess of his son Judas, who made a goodContinue reading “Light from the Readable Books 26: Maccabean War and Peace, Martyrdom and Resurrection”