August 2024
Sloth – the noon-day devil – as it is sometimes called… Sloth, one of the seven deadly sins, is subject to gross misunderstanding and underappreciation in terms of the peril it…
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INTRODUCTION: Immediately it becomes clear that we will have to race through a lot of material and be unable to hit everything or deal with each episode in detail. Sad…
INTRODUCTION: Reviewing the previous week’s lesson is always an excellent place to start. At least a summation is a good spot to launch from. Here the instructor can, once again,…
INTRODUCTION: Last week’s story showed us God selecting a single individual, and an unexceptional one at that (an underdog, really), as a place to begin his work to turn the…
INTRODUCTION: Last week we heard about the very interesting and ambivalent character, Jacob. Jacob seems almost like a man of split personalities. He is almost an ancient day Jekyl and…
INTRODUCTION: The story of a single family now grows to become the story of a whole nation. The people of Israel are all still part of the same big family. …
INTRODUCTION: The most pronounced event of redemption that occurs on a national scale in all of the Old Testament is the exodus. But the exodus, in reality,is a much larger…