We are going to go back to Genesis 15th chapter and get involved with Abraham once again. We will do just a little bit of review first though. I think that I titled this Abrahams trials with God's promise. We have to, I think, in order …
Americans have a reputation for being short-sighted. While Japanese corporations plan for the next hundred years, American companies find it painful to plan for the next twelve months. Notice how well the American government planned the …
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread memorialize the redemption and exodus of the children of Israel from Egyptian slavery. In Exodus 13:3, 8-9, God says that we are to keep the latter feast as a memorial of what He did in …

(4) "And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. (5) But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!
While Revelation 21:8 says that the fearful have their part in the lake of fire, it is a paradox that a Christian must have fear. It just has to be the right kind of fear, as Christ teaches here. While the wrong kind of fear can lead to …
In Part One, we saw how corrosive bitterness and resentment can be to our relationships, considering the well-known example of Esau toward his brother, Jacob. Another example of bitterness in the Bible appears in the story of Naomi. After moving from Judah to the land of Moab during a famine with her husband and two sons, she had to deal with at least two significant tragedies. She lost not only her husband, Elimelech, but also both of her adult sons ten years later. After being left with just her two daughters-in-law in a foreign land, she says in Ruth 1:13, “No, my daughters; for it …
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