Americans do many things well: Space travel, radio and television transmissions, weather forecasting, computers, automobiles, jet flight, modern medicine, antibiotics. We have stopped polio in its tracks and rid the world of smallpox. But Ancient Israel did one thing better: RECORD KEEPING. The Bible includes the most detailed records of so many things. The writersContinue reading “What’s With All These Ancestors and Family Trees? Ezra 2:59-62.”
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ANCESTOR WORSHIP. Ezekiel 43:7,9.
There is an interesting line in Alex Haley’s novel ROOTS. When the author travels to West Africa, he discovers that the tribe of his ancestors requires children to be able to recite their ancestry to ten generations. But ten generations would include over a thousand people. It’s understood that children were memorizing only one branchContinue reading “ANCESTOR WORSHIP. Ezekiel 43:7,9.”
Sowing and Reaping Across Generations.
Jonathan Edwards was one of early America’s greatest preachers. His devotion to prayer and Bible study remains unparalleled, his biographer recording that he usually spent 13 hours a day studying the word, an hour talking with his wife and 11 kids, and prayed a prayer of blessing over each child, every day. When Edwards hadContinue reading “Sowing and Reaping Across Generations.”
Are You Capable and Can You Be Trusted?
This morning I ran across an article from 1960 commemorating my grandfather’s 40 years of service at what was then the world’s largest oil refinery, Esso, Baton Rouge. His bosses reported: “He seems able to cope with almost any situation, no matter how critical. He has a level head, practical manner, and I think heContinue reading “Are You Capable and Can You Be Trusted?”
The Time Machine.
What if you could go back to the days of Job or Abraham? There are no written scriptures. Everything you know about the One True God came to you by word of mouth passed down through generations: stories about families and wars and the flood and animal sacrifices and a God who might be listeningContinue reading “The Time Machine.”
The Way of All the Earth.
When Joshua saw his death approaching, he said: “Behold, I AM GOING THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH” Joshua 23:14. That puts it in perspective doesn’t it? Everything on earth dies. Every plant, animal, and person. We honor graveyards but sometimes I walk through a forest or pasture and wonder who may have died thereContinue reading “The Way of All the Earth.”
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