By Dan Lentz 1. Ask group members to select two of the following options and answer this question: What is the most challenging aspect of being a . . . • parent? • employee? • student? • leader ? Read Genesis 22:1-14. 2. The Lord asked Abraham to do a difficult thing. […]
By Sam E. Stone In last week’s lesson God assured Abram that he would actually have a son who would serve as his heir. Abram believed God. In the chapters that follow (Genesis 15:18–22:1), we read about Hagar and Ishmael, the covenant of circumcision, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot, and Abimelech. Abram’s name […]
By Wendy Wagoner I live in an African country that suffers from a lack of water during seasons of drought. During one such season our well stopped pumping. I knew God was working in a mighty way within the country, but without water, how would we carry on the training of church planters? I knew […]
By Dr. Tim Woodroof In the fall of 1993, James Lane was driving his Volkswagen on the back roads of the Oregon coast. He was 41, born in the year 1952. Around the time of James’s birth, a seedpod dropped from one of Oregon’s towering western red cedars and took root in the loamy […]
By Dr. Bill Patterson In my 20s I decided I didn’t want to be a grumpy old man when I reached my senior years. I wanted to be a person of encouragement, a person not wrapped up in self but in God and others. Then it hit me: grumpy old men usually get their […]
