Bibl Story : Jacob and Esau Jacob and Esau JACOB REMAINED TWENTY years with Laban, whose daughter Rachel he had married. In those days men’s chief riches consisted in flocks and herds and Jacob had the care of those belonging to Laban. His uncle tried to deprive him of the wages which he… Read More »
Bible Story : Jacob and Rachel Jacob and Rachel JACOB CONTINUED ON his way, getting ever farther away from his brother Esau’s wrath. At last he reached Haran, the place where his uncle Laban dwelt. He saw a green field, and in the field a well. Three flocks of sheep were lying there,… Read More »
Bible Story : The Ladder That Reached to Heaven The Ladder That Reached to Heaven AFTER ESAU FOUND that he had lost his birth-right and his blessing, he was very angry against his brother Jacob and he said to himself, and told others: “My father Isaac is very old and cannot live long.… Read More »
Bible Story : The Story of Jacob The Story of Jacob AFTER ABRAHAM DIED, his son Isaac lived in the land of Canaan. Like his father, Isaac had his home in a tent around him were the tents of his people, and many flocks of sheep and herds of cattle feeding wherever they… Read More »
Bible Story : How Abraham Found a Wife For Isaac How Abraham Found a Wife For Isaac WHEN SARAH, ISAAC’S mother, was one hundred and twenty-seven years old, she died. Abraham had no place to bury her, so he bought a field containing a cave,, and Abraham buried Sarah in this cave. The… Read More »
Bible Story : How Abraham Gave Isaac Back to God How Abraham Gave Isaac Back to God IT IS GOD’S will that people show their love for him by what they do. You remember how God wished to have the first man and woman show their love for him. He planted in their garden-home a… Read More »
Bible Story : Ishmael – The Little Boy Who Became A Great Hunter Ishmael – The Little Boy Who Became A Great Hunter AFTER THE DESTRUCTION of Sodom and the other cities of the plain, Abraham moved away from Hebron. He journeyed south and west, into the land of the Philistines, near the… Read More »
Bible Story : Sodom And Gomorrah, And What Happened to Them Sodom And Gomorrah, And What Happened to Them THE LONG SHADOWS of evening-time were stealing over the through the valleys, and everywhere people were hurrying home. Soon the city gates would be closed, and the wise men who sat there during the… Read More »
Lot’s Choice, And How It Brought Trouble WHEN LOT SELECTED the fertile plains of Jordan for his share of Canaan’s land, he thought he was making a wise choice. He saw in the distance the large cities of the plain, called Sodom and Gomorrah. He knew that in those cities he could sell sheep and… Read More »
Christianity Christianity: Simple Truth Christianity rises to the top when you earnestly investigate the other theories, philosophies, movements and religions of the world. Yes, as hard as it is to hear in our pluralistic world community, Christianity is different than all the others. That may sound terribly dogmatic and narrow-minded, but the simple truth is… Read More »
Is the Bible True? – Archaeology Is the Bible true? Not only does the Bible miraculously foretell the future, it also recounts the distant past with great accuracy. As such, archaeology has been a source of great vindication for the Bible. In Josh McDowell’s classic treatise on the historical evidences supporting the Bible’s veracity, renowned… Read More »
Is The Bible True? Is the Bible True? – A Remarkable Book Is the Bible true? Certainly the Bible is a remarkable book — unquestionably the world’s all-time bestseller with countless millions of copies in print. A single Bible distribution organization reported delivering over 627,000,000 Bibles worldwide in one year alone (United Bible Societies, 1999).… Read More »
Bible Story : Abraham – A Man Who Heard And Obeyed God’s Call Abraham – A Man Who Heard And Obeyed God’s Call THE PEOPLE WHO moved away from Babel into different parts of the world did not pray to God. Their hearts were sinful, and they shrank away from the purity of… Read More »
Bible Story : Noah’s Ark – And Why It Was Built Noah’s Ark – And Why It Was Built THE CHILDREN OF Adam and Eve lived to be very old. Their children also lived for several hundreds of years. And so it was that grandsons became grandfathers before their own grandfathers died. Thus… Read More »
Bible Story : Cain and Abel – The First Children Cain and Abel – The First Children AFTER SIN CAUSED God to shut Adam and Eve out of the beautiful home that he had made for them, they built a home for themselves somewhere outside the garden gate. Here they began to feel more… Read More »
Bible Story : Eden – The First Earth-Home Eden – The First Earth-Home GOD HIMSELF MADE for Adam and Eve their first earth-home. And a beautiful home it was. We shall call it a garden-home. God chose a place from which four rivers flowed and there he planted a large garden. We do not know… Read More »
Bible Story : Creation – How the World Was Made Creation – How the World Was Made THIS GREAT WORLD in which we live did not always exist. The broad expanse of sky, which smiles upon us when days are fair, and frowns and weeps when days are foul, did not always form… Read More »
Bible Story : The Tower of Babel – And Why It Was Never Finished The Tower of Babel – And Why It Was Never Finished A CLEAN, NEW world lay before Noah and his three sons when they stepped out of the ark. Now there were no wicked neighbors to mock at them… Read More »