Samuel’s story began with the backstory of his mother’s faith. She had been unable to conceive and longed to have children. The depth of her anguish over her situation, her desperate prayer and her devotion to God are detailed in I Samuel 1. She was so committed to...
On our tour of Hebrews 11, we have studied several people who were highlighted by the writer as models of faith. Many of them activated their faith in a pivotal or critical moment in time in their life or in a crucial moment in the lives of God’s people. We know part...
Judges 10:6-10 6 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. (That’s a lot of gods!) And because...
Judges 4 and 5 tell the story of a man named Barak. He was a military commander who lived during yet another time when Israel was being disciplined by God for doing evil. He allowed Israel to fall into the hands of King Jabin of Canaan. Jabin’s army was well-equipped...
Judges 13:1-5-Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. 2 A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give...
Hebrews 11:31-By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient. Rahab wasn’t Jewish. Rahab was an outsider, a Gentile. She didn’t have history with God’s people. Worse, she was entrenched in the pagan...
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