Sometimes we may wonder what God is doing if He is doing anything. Today we look at the life of Joseph and see how we can understand that God is working behind the scenes to accomplish his will. We are just part of the puzzle in the big picture of things.

With the media pushing climate change, and climate control it often is a question asked where is God and what is He doing? Habakkuk asked the same question and complained that all he got was silence from God. When God told him what He would do, Habakkuk argued with him that the people he was using as His instruments of judgment against His own people were guilty and worse for doing the things more extreme. Sometimes I wonder if we really believe God is in control and when we want Him to do something it has to be to our expectations to be acceptable. It is not - He is God and we are not!

So often we think we know the Christmas story but I think we tend to forget these were real people who witness and extraordinary event that changed their lives forever. Today we look through a shepherds eyes to understand how he felt

One of the people's assumptions as to why they didn't believe they were guilty of judgment was that it was their leaders fault - so if anyone deserved judgment it was them not us - their fault no ours. Ezekiel seeks to show otherwise.

A hypocrite is a pretender, someone who pretends to be something they are not. Many people pretend to be Christians on Sunday and then live the opposite other days of the week. Jesus has a great deal to say about religious authorities who say one thing and do the opposite.