A good beginning doesn’t guarantee a good end. Israel’s first three kings – Saul, David, and Solomon – all learned that lesson the hard way. If we’re smart, we’ll learn from their failures rather than making the same mistakes ourselves.…
Once the Children of Israel took over the land of Canaan, life was good. It was a land “flowing with milk and honey.” They had homes and barns and flocks and vineyards and orchards. Life became very easy for God’s…
After wandering around in the desert for forty years watching their parents and grand parents die, the surviving Children of Israel came once again to the edge of the promised land. Now it was their turn to make the choice.…
As God led His people away from slavery in Egypt, His desire was to grow them up in their love for Him and for each other. How did they do? Well I think you’ll agree the answer to that question…
A simple family goes to Egypt to escape a famine in their homeland. And yes, it was a large family (twelve sons, their wives, their kids…), but still just a family. 400 years later that simple family has grown to…
Two years after Noah died Abraham was born, which was about 400 years after the devastating flood. (Yes, Noah lived a long time!) The world’s population was still relatively small and the nation of Israel did not exist. When Abraham…
God’s relentless pursuit of a loving relationship with people like us is evident from the moment sin came into the world. Immediately following Adam and Eve’s sin, God promised to send someone who would defeat Satan and his work in…
The information the Bible gives us about how God created the world is mind-boggling for us humble humans. We can’t really wrap our heads around it. How did He do it? How is it possible that a whole lot of…
As we launch BibleStoryBoards out into the world, we are using it at Bridges Community Church to work our way through the Bible. Yesterday the entire church began a three-week focus on the 15 StoryBoards – four the first Sunday,…