Pasture With Sleeping Shepherds, Jan Siberechts 1650, Alte Pinakothek, Muncih Germany The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:4 "Through the shepherdess dozing in the sun and the child that has curled up on the ground to sleep, Siberechts captures the heat of summer. In this way he lends the pastoral theme - that is much in the tradition of Italian landscape painting - an accent of its very own."

Photo from magazine mid 1990's There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer male or female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 I was serving St. John's Lutheran Church in Great Falls, Montana when this incident took place. During Hanukkah in December 1993 five-year-old Isaac Schnitzer put up a Hannukah menorah in the window at his house in Billings, MT, a city of 85, 000 at the time, with about 100 people of Jewish faith. One night a cinder block c

The Road to Emmaus, Herman van Swanevelt, c. 1630, Doria Pamphij Gallery, Rome, Italy Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. Luke 24:13-16 After Jesus rose from the dead, from the tomb, he went for a walk. Two f