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What’s With All These Ancestors and Family Trees? Ezra 2:59-62.

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.”

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.”