How good are you at waiting? For me, it all depends. Waiting to get my ideal job? After a few arguments with God, I eventually was patient and received a wonderful blessing from Him. Waiting for Mr. Right (a.k.a. Chris) to show up
Welcome back! Did you miss BSF as much as I did? While it was nice to have a break, it’s also good to be back in the BSF routine. Back in December, we left Abram after he rescued his nephew Lot
Where has the time gone?! It’s 3:00 on Wednesday afternoon, and I’m finally getting around to posting this week’s summary. This is our last lesson until after Christmas. I’m always amazed at how God gives me this break just when I
Abram and Lot approached one circumstance together. But they made two very different choices, resulting in positive and negative consequences. While traveling and living together, Abram and Lot’s herdsmen realized that the land couldn’t support everyone and everything. (And verse 7 tells
God asks a lot of us as believers. He often asks us to step out in faith and trust that His plan is best. This is what happened to Abram. God called Abram to pack up and move, to leave everything
In our study, we’ve now reached the beginning of the story of Abraham. He is one of the great patriarchs of the Christian faith. We’ll spend the next several weeks discussing his life, which includes plenty of mountaintop and valley experiences.
Genesis chapters 10 and 11 are a turning point in the story of humanity. Chapters 1 to 11 are the wide-angle view of the beginning of the world. Chapters 12 to 50 move the focus to one family chosen by God
Noah and his family spent more than a year in the ark. When they left the ark, they saw a world that had changed dramatically. After experiencing a year full of God’s grace and mercy, a humble Noah built an
What do you think about when you hear the story of Noah and the flood? If you’re like me, you usually focus on Noah, the animals and God. But consider the sin of the people, the flood and being on the
For some reason, many of the application questions from the lecture hit me this week. So a lot of this summary is those thought-provoking questions. This lesson focuses on Seth’s lineage of faith. While Cain’s descendants chose their own way and