John 1:1-5 Jesus spoke to his closest disciples the night he was arrested. (John 14:1–3) “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a…

II Kings 4:8-38 The first year Annie and I were married we had very little money. I had graduated from seminary and Annie was finishing her final year of university. I worked doing small jobs as a carpenter, getting a house ready to be renovated, and shoveling snow during the blizzard of ‘78. After shoveling…

Numbers 13:1 – 14:10 In 1951, Solomon Asch conducted his first conformity laboratory experiments at Swarthmore College. He gathered groups of eight male college students and gave them a simple task. There was a card with a line on it followed by three lines labeled A, B, and C. One of these lines was the…