One of the most troubling questions for religious and non-religious people is, " Why do good people suffer?" The book of Job combines two different approaches to this question and comes up with some provocative responses, though they don't seem to be answers.

When we include and look out for outsiders, we create the healthy community that God has in mind all along, making a way out of the no way.

Spies are sent into the land of promise to see what kind of resistance Israel might meet when they entered. In the process the spies receive help and protection from a most unlikely source.

Dr. Watson discusses the book of Romans

No sooner had Moses gone to the mountain to talk with God than the people wanted an idol to worship. What are our American idols, that out of fear we create to worship in place of the living God?

When Jesus refers to our daily bread in the prayer he teaches his disciples, he is likely making reference to this story. Though the people are constantly complaining, God provides all that they need for their journey. On the tenth anniversary of a tragic day it might be good to remember that God provides all that we need as well.