One evidence that the Bible is divine is the record of fulfilled predictive prophecies. The Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years by at least 40 different human writers. The evidence of fulfilled prophecy is extremely faith building. For instance, reading Psalm 22 (written 1,000 years before Christ) and Isaiah 52:13—53:12 (written 700 […]
Caesar Augustus thought he was solving a governance problem when he ordered a census throughout his empire. Who knew a far more important plan was unfolding? Joseph and Mary thought they were complying with an inconvenient Roman edict by returning to their ancestral hometown. Who knew they were fulfilling a prediction written centuries before by […]
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson: 1. What is the meaning of the expression, “a perfect storm”? Tell about a time in your life when many seemingly random circumstances came together all at once to create an earth-shaking event. 2. Complete this statement: “I remember where I was when [a […]
MONDAY Reading for Today: John 18:28-40 Revelation 12 Job 35 Micah 4–5 Revelation 12 There are some things worse than death. One of those things is life without Jesus. The believers who are mentioned in Revelation 12 must have understood this too, because they stood strong against the devil’s schemes and refused to turn their […]
The ultimate objective of preaching and teaching is not just conveying information. It is achieving transformation (Andy Stanley, Communicating for a Change). Believers often know more Bible than they are living. If anyone needed a transformation of his whole life it was Zacchaeus of Jericho. The story of the transformation of Zacchaeus could be a […]
