Have you ever spent time reading about Abraham, beginning in Genesis chapter 12? One thing Abraham does quite often is build an altar to the Lord. He doesn't just build one altar in one spot and then be done with it. He builds several altars in several locations. But why?

On the Church calendar, we are nearing the end of the Church Year, and the readings for the next few weeks will invite us to think about the End Times and being prepared for Jesus' return.

When you think about it, we each have our personal end time in the sense that, unless Jesus returns first, we will die. Are you prepared for that?

Sometimes, an account in the Bible skips over a lot of years in a few verses. Such is the case with the account of Moses.