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I’m sure you have heard the old idiom,“warts and all.” It refers to a way of describing someone by not only mentioning their merits, but also their shortcomings. In today’s lesson, we’ll see a spiritual wart in Abraham’s character as he and Saria demonstrate their impatience and doubt as they take the matter of having a son into their own hands. Abram is not the only biblical character described “warts and all;” They all are, and that’s good news for […]

I once heard the story about a couple who took their children, ages 11 and 7, to Carlsbad Caverns. While they were in the deepest part of the cave, the guide cut off the lights and the family found itself in deep darkness. The little girl started crying in horror, but her older brother consoled her saying, “Don’t cry. Somebody here knows how to turn on the lights!” In today’s lesson in Genesis 15, a horror and great darkness is […]

In today’s lesson we will witness Abraham’s salvation that came when “He believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” So here is Abraham getting saved long before there was a Good Friday or a Resurrection Sunday. How could that be? Well, we’ll try to answer that question as we study this text and learn about faith’s role in the Easter message.. George

In our lesson today, Abraham and his 318 servants will make a daring rescue of Abraham’s nephew Lot who has been taken captive by a coalition of four evil kings. When Abraham returns victoriously, he will be met by another king–a king with two names: King of Righteousness and King of Peace. We’ll try to figure out just who this king is and why he wants to have dinner with Abraham as we study chapter 14 of Genesis. George

In today’s study in Genesis 13, we will see Abraham return to the altar he had built earlier at Bethel, and there he will call upon the name of the Lord. Bethel lies almost at the very center of Israel, and the name of the city means, “the house of God.” So no doubt Abraham’s return to Bethel is symbolic of him being at the center of God’s will at the house of God. And there he will call upon […]

In today’s lesson, we will see Abraham, out of fear for his own life, head down to Egypt for food and water. Whenever we see a biblical character go down to Egypt, the story serves as a type of believers who move back towards the old life and the world of sin and self-sufficiency we supposedly left behind when we were saved.. So this story has great lessons for all believers, because the way God reacts to Abraham’s lapse of […]

In January 2016, the second largest Protestant denomination in America, the United Methodist Church, blocked five Israeli banks from being in its investment portfolio, and in doing so, in effect, joined the BDS movement. BDS stands for “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” against Israeli companies. Its goal is to “curse” Israel economically so that they will be forced to give up much of their territory to the Palestinians. But as we will see in our lesson today, if God is true […]

In Matthew 18:12, Jesus asked the question, “What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the 99 and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? And if he should find it assuredly I say to you, ‘he rejoices more over that sheep than the 99 that did not go astray!’” In this parable, Jesus was not only talking about the joy of seeing one […]

My dad used to warn me about my behavior by saying, “The things you are doing are a recipe for disaster!” I should have listened to him and I would have spared myself a lot of trouble along the way. There is another recipe that we need to be wary of, and that is the recipe for confusion, and the main ingredient for that recipe is ingratitude. In today’s lesson, we will see how the peoples of the world, because […]

In today’s lesson we will be looking at The Table of Nations found in Genesis 10. The table is given to us as a genealogy of the sons and grandsons of Noah who became the many nations on earth as they migrated throughout the world after the flood and after the Tower of Babel. Not only will we see where these nations ended up on the world map, we will see just how they fit into the blessings and curses […]

Solomon wisely said in Ecclesiastes 1:9: “That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.” The main meaning of that fascinating statement is that people don’t change by themselves. And so the evil things that have been done in the past will be done over and over again in the future. For there is “nothing new under the sun.” In today’s lesson we will […]

Ken Ham recently decided to have the Ark Encounter exhibit he created lit up each night with the colors of the rainbow. He said, “Sadly, people ignore what God intended the rainbow to represent and proudly wave rainbow-colored flags in defiance of God’s command and design for marriage.” He went on to say, “It is time that we need to take the rainbow back and teach our young people its true meaning!” So what is the true meaning of the […]

When people think of Noah, most don’t think of him as a mighty warrior for God, but that is exactly what he was. As we look at the last part of chapter 8, we will see some of the traits of Noah’s character at play that made him such a great man of God, and some of us maybe will be inspired to make sure those traits are present in us, so we too can be mighty warriors for God […]

A few years back, a John Hopkins researcher published the a list of the things people most often forget. They forget names 83% of the time; where something is 60% of the time; telephone numbers 57% of the time; words 53% of the time; what was said in a recent conversation 49% of the time; and faces 42% of the time. We forget a lot of things, and because we do, a lot of people assume God must forget things […]

Webster dictionary defines “culture shock” as “a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may effect people exposed to a different culture or environment.” Just imagine the “culture shock” Noah and his family must have endured living on a boat with a bunch of animals and birds for a whole year, and then to have gotten off that boat and walked onto the face of an earth devastated by a world-wide flood. I’m sure they were […]

In today’s lesson, we will be taking note of how God worked His plan to save Noah and his family from the flood by using both natural processes and miracles. Actually, in their deliverance, God used natural processes much, much more than supernatural miracles. God’s minimal use of miracles in working out His plans is the essence of a little-known doctrine theologians call the Economy of Miracles. Today we’ll see how that doctrine was employed by the Lord in Noah’s […]

It’s hard to comprehend the fact that the great flood of Noah’s day that killed billions of people was an act of God; but the Bible clearly teaches that it was. In today’s lesson, we will explore God’s role, not only in the Flood, but in all the disasters that plague this earth, and maybe we can get a better understanding of how a good and loving God would allow such tragedies to strike our earth. George

Francis of Assisi once was hoeing his garden when someone asked him, “What would you do the rest of the day if you knew the Lord was about to return?” And he replied, “I would finish hoeing my garden!” The reason he could say that was that he was confident that the menial task he was doing was part of God’s perfect will for his life. Part of having real peace and joy in the Christian life is knowing and […]

We are told in today’s text that “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” It almost sounds as if one day Noah stumbled upon some long lost treasure. But the grace Noah found was his long before he found it. It had been stored up for him by the Lord Himself even before the world was created. As we begin our study in chapter 6 today, we’ll try to figure out just what that grace was that Noah […]

Today we will be looking at one the most fascinating and mysterious passages in the Bible. In it we will learn about a very strange race of giants known as the Nephilim. We will also learn about the role they played in God’s decision to judge the Antediluvian world with the Great Flood. Not only that, we will look at the possibility that the Nephilim have been around since the Flood, and quite possibly exist today! George