Some Christians believe that God has chosen, even before a person was born, whether or not that person will be saved. That is, those who in the end are lost eternally are lost because God, in His wisdom (this theology claims) made that choice for this person to be lost. Which means, then, that regardless … Continue reading –>
Read for This Week’s Study: Eph. 1:1-4; Matt. 22:35-37; Matt. 7:24-25; Prov. 18:24; 1 Cor. 15:33; Eccles. 2:1-11. Memory Text: “And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney The year couldn’t have gone worse for Elisa Albertsen, a native of Palmer, Alaska, who quit a promising career as a hairdresser to volunteer at a mission school in the Marshall Islands. Just three months into the school year, she had to be airlifted back to the United States after dislocating a … Continue reading –>
Further Thought: Imagine the changes that occurred in the life of Christ’s disciples as they spent time with Him. They were mostly uneducated, simple people, accustomed to the teachings and traditions of their Jewish faith, but now they were being challenged by the Galilean Rabbi. They experienced jealousy (Matt. 20:20-24) and conflict (John 3:25); they seemed to lack … Continue reading –>
We were not meant to die. That was never God’s plan. Man, the crowning act of creation, was intended to live forever. So incredible is the brain of man that an eternity of living would not exhaust its enjoyment of life and love. We were created to live. We start this quarter’s lesson by broadly … Continue reading –>
The Bible is a book of relationships. God created us to be in relationship with others. Indeed, very few of us live in complete isolation. For starters, none of us could even come into existence but for others. Even after birth, we need others to take care of us, at least until a certain age … Continue reading –>
The fact is that human beings are, often, creatures of habit. And we do, indeed, get set in our ways, and the older we get, the harder it is to change those ways. Indeed, we don’t change easily. How many wives have complained over the years, “I’ve tried to change my husband, but … ”? … Continue reading –>
Read Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7-9. What happened to Job? In what ways does his experience reflect what happens to everyone, in one way or another, or at one time or another? The Greek philosopher Heraclitus declared that “there is nothing permanent except change”. Just as it seems that everything is going fine, the unexpected happens. It may … Continue reading –>
We have just completed studying the last book of the Bible and now start at the very beginning in Genesis 1 which shows that God created: “All Things Bright and Beautiful” – Hymn 93 including families, Hymn 650, “Our Father, by Whose Name”. Hymn 75, “The Wonder of It All” renders us The Rhythms of Life for Monday. … Continue reading –>
In the beginning. Does your living room, kitchen, workplace, and other parts of your home reflect order, with the neat and harmonious arrangement of the items that make living in your home rewarding? What evidence do we see in the study of creation that reveal the value of cleanliness and care in our home–and in … Continue reading –>
