Chapter 5 4990 B.C. The Flood–1877 B.C. Joseph 148 Six thousand years had passed since the year of creation. Mankind had slowly multiplied on the earth. Because man had been created with a perfect body, he began with no inherent birth defects. Therefore, the Bible discloses that during this period of…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

Defining The Church I. Defining The Church Louis Berkoff - “The Church consists of those who are partakers of Christ and of the blessings of salvation that are in Him.” Wayne Grudem - “The church is the community of all true believers for all time.” A. Key Biblical Words 1. Hebrew - qahal - a gathering…

Hosea 8 - Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind A. Sowing idolatry, reaping exile. 1. (1-6) Casting off God and embracing idols. “Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law. Israel will cry…

How many things there are in the world, which we have upon our tables and which we even eat, that if we were to put beneath our microscope we should be afraid to touch! For we should see all kinds of loathsome creatures creeping and crawling about in them—such things as we never conceived! And so it…

The Nature of Unsaved Men & Women Ephesians 2:3b-5 …we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)… Condition…

C. S. Lewis writes: Christ says, "Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there. I want…

INSIGHT For one middle-aged man, the word "two" appears blue. The number "2" appears orange, and "5" is green. The man has been diagnosed with synesthea, a phenomenon in which printed words and numbers burst with colors, flavors take on shapes, and the spoken language turns into a rainbow. This person…

Some teachers believe they can teach anyone anything. But the truth is the student must have certain qualifications as well. For example, in Washington State police arrested the driver of a Buick for driving 109 mph on the interstate. The Buick had hit two other cars, then left the interstate and drove…