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Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 11 -- "Abraham and Isaac" This story has incredible depth and meaning. It also has some amazing parallels to the story of Jesus! This is the final lecture for this semester. The new study will resume on January 19, 2012!  Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 10 - "Abraham and Sarah" Sarah's life teaches us much about God's redeeming work and confirms that our past does not have to define our future. Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 9 -- "Abraham and Hagar" God teaches great things about Himself through the story of Hagar! Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 8 -- "Abraham: Covenants: God is a Covenant God and He demonstrates that in the life of Abram! If you are having trouble accessing last week's lesson, I apologize. We are working to correct the problem! Check back! Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 7 -- "Abraham Intro" With this lecture we kick off a 5 week session on Abraham. It will be a wonderful time of study about this very faithful man of God and those living around him! Remember to print out the note sheet to use during the lecture. Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 6 -- "Noah's Obedience" Noah could have made so many excuses. Since he walked with God, he chose obedeince instead! (The second homework link is actually the lecture note sheet.) Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 5 -- "Cain and Abel" Today we look at lessons learned from Cain and Abel. Unfortunately mankind is still struggling with the same issues! A New Adventure Dave and I have embarked on a journey. It is not one that requires a suitcase and passport (unfortunately J), but it will be eye opening and life changing. After 15 years in the same church, God has called us away. We will be joining a VERY small congregation that has a VERY big mission’s heart! We started this journey several months ago, but had no idea where it was going to end. In fact, we thought we were just taking a ministry break and would be back worshipping in our same pew by the end of the summer. We spent the summer visiting the churches of friends and random ones that we were interested in. Most all of them were meaningful in some form or fashion, but none ‘drew’ us. Then we visited the last church and the rest as they say is history. Over the past few years we have come to realize that God has been drawing us to ‘minister to the ministers’. He has opened door after door to allow us the privilege of walking beside and encouraging those who are on the ‘front lines’. We will definitely have this privilege at our new church. The pastor and his wife need folks to walk beside them. The congregation is mostly young in age and many in spiritual maturity as well. We officially fall in to the category of ‘old folks’. We don’t know exactly what it is all going to look like or where it will eventually lead, but for now we are headed out allowing Him to weave the tapestry one stitch at a time. I love how this has happened as I am teaching the first semester of “Walking Through the Stories” because this is just one more story in HIS story. The tapestry God is weaving may seem a mystery, but HE knows exactly how it will look in the end. Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 4 -- "Adam's Turn" There were some eternal consequences to Adam and Eve's disobedience. This week the focus will be on Adam! Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 3 --"Eve -- What happened?" Eve was deceived by the crafty serpent. These are lessons that we can learn from her time in the garden. Walking Through the Stories -- Lesson 2 -- "God Spoke" Creation is a miracle that God spoke in to existance! It was the beginning of a great and wonderful love story of which we get to be a part! (I also added a new blog post! :-) |
