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The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

When the great missionary David Livingstone died after living his life for the Lord, his body was buried in England, but his heart was appropriately buried in Africa because he loved his work and the people he ministered to there so much. Dr. Livingstone over the years had learned the lesson that we see in our text today in Genesis 21; and that is, that living with an eternal perspective often reaps blessings that we can richly enjoy in our […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Paul gives us one of the most foundational principles for a victorious Christian life when he says in Gal 2:16, “We know that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ…. for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.” We’ll actually see the ramifications of that principle in our story today in Genesis 21 which serves as an allegory about the two covenants of law and grace. […]

David in Psalms 139 makes an astonishing claim about the Lord’s attention to His own by saying: “How precious are your thoughts towards me, O God! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand!” And knowing that God’s thoughts cover the past, present, and future,  I can be assured that every single major event in my life is already marked on His eternal calender in heaven. In today’s text, Abraham and Sarah will finally […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Most of us have a hard time learning from our mistakes, and so we seem to be facing the same trials in life over and over again. Some refer such a pattern as “going around the same mountain over and over again”–much like the Israelites when they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years going around Mount Horeb. But even great men of faith like Abraham at times found themselves going around the same mountain of testing again. That’s exactly […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

On March 6, 1836, 1500 Mexican soldiers under the command of General Santa Anna stormed the Alamo in San Antonio and slaughtered all of the fortress’s 257 Texas soldiers. Santa Anna thought that the utter defeat at the Alamo would cause Texicans elsewhere to flee the territory, but it had the opposite effect. Volunteers by the hundreds joined the Texas forces, and on April 21, they attacked and defeated the Mexican forces at Lynchburg Ferry. During the attack they shouted […]

Listen to these encouraging studies by Pastor George from the Book of Psalms.

Lot, the main character in Genesis 19, serves as a great example of a carnal believer. He loved his present world, but at the same time He had real faith in God and heaven, and so in the New Testament we are assured that he was saved. But his carnality came at a heavy price, and we will learn about what it cost him as today we study his rescue from Sodom’s impending destruction. And the costs of Lot’s carnality […]

Listen to these encouraging studies by Pastor George from the Book of Psalms.

When entertainer W.C. Fields was dying he had a Bible in hand reading Scripture. One of his friends asked him what he was doing and he replied, “I’m looking for loopholes!” There is only one “loophole” in the Bible and that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And every man and woman will be judged based upon what they did with Jesus Christ. Why? Because no matter how good a person may seem to be by men’s standards, they do […]

Listen to these encouraging studies by Pastor George from the Book of Psalms.

As we continue the story of Abraham today, the Lord is going to pay him another visit. This time He comes for Sarah’s sake; to indirectly tell her that she is going to have a son. But like Abraham, her first response will be to laugh. And the Lord will respond by saying, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” The answer to that rhetorical question is “NO!” Actually, the literal translation for that question should be, “Is anything too […]

Peter Drucker in his leadership seminars lists 5 requirements for an effective church leader: 1) He works. 2) He sees his assignment as a responsibility rather than rank privilege. 3) A leader surrounds himself with strong associates. 4) A leader creates energies and vision. 5) A leader develops followers’ trust by his own consistency and integrity. As we will see in today’s lesson, Abraham was a great leader, but I think his attributes for leadership differ quite a bit from […]

In 1867, President Andrew Johnson signed a deal with Russia to purchase the 585,000 square miles of Alaska for only $7.2 million. Some have called it the greatest deal ever made. But it’s not. Actually, Abraham was the beneficiary of the greatest deal ever made. Because he received all the great promises of God–the whole land of Israel, a great name, along with eternal life- for nothing. All he had to do was to agree to be the beneficiary of […]