Noah and God's Great Promise

Noah and God's Great Promise

Author: Zondervan

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0310718848

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God tells Noah to build a giant ark and fill it with animals. The people of Noah's hometown laugh at him. What does God have in mind when the rain starts?


The Promised One (A 10-week Bible Study)

The Promised One (A 10-week Bible Study)

Author: Nancy Guthrie

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2011-07-07

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 143352628X

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This first volume in the Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament Bible study series guides women through a Christ-centered study of Genesis. The Promised One provides a fresh look at the book of Genesis, leading women in discovering how its stories, symbols, people, and promises point to Christ. Over ten weeks of study, participants will see Christ as the agent of creation, the offspring who will crush the head of the serpent, the ark of salvation, the source of the righteousness credited to Abraham, the substitutionary sacrifice provided by God, the Savior to whom the whole world must come for life, and much more. Each weekly lesson includes questions for personal study, a contemporary teaching chapter that emphasizes how the passage fits into the bigger story of redemptive history, a brief section on how the passage uniquely points to what is yet to come at the consummation of Christ's kingdom, and a leader's guide for group discussion. A ten-session DVD companion set is also available.


The Slavery of Death

The Slavery of Death

Author: Richard Beck

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-12-23

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1620327775

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According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to "break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as "the power of the devil"? And most importantly, how are we--as individuals and as faith communities--to be set free from this slavery to death?In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of self-preservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our self-esteem. Driven by anxiety--enslaved to the fear of death--we are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as "the sting of death is sin." Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.


Adam and Eve, God's First People

Adam and Eve, God's First People

Author:

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 031071883X

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Retells, in illustrations and simple text, the biblical story of Genesis, from the creation of light through the explusion from Eden.


The Promises of God Storybook Bible

The Promises of God Storybook Bible

Author: Jennifer Lyell

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1535972505

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God’s love is unstoppable. And that’s a promise. Noah’s ark. Joseph’s dreams. Jesus’s miracles. The Bible is rich with stories for our children to hear and enjoy, but when those stories uncover the thread of God’s promises, our children learn much more than individual Bible stories. They discover how God has demonstrated His love for us, from the first promise in the garden to the promise of the new heavens and earth. A conversational, whimsical, biblically faithful retelling of more than fifty key Bible stories, The Promises of God Storybook Bible lets your child hear favorite stories with new ears, repeatedly assuring them that each word is proof of God’s unstoppable love and unbreakable promises to His people.


God Always Keeps His Promises

God Always Keeps His Promises

Author: Max Lucado

Publisher: Tommy Nelson

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 140031688X

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Share God’s faithfulness and love with your child through Max Lucado’s God Always Keeps His Promises. Based on the promises of God, this Bible storybook will help children see that God is completely trustworthy to keep His promises. Just like He did in Bible times. Just like He does for them today. Through the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Joseph, Peter, Paul, and many more, children will learn about the character and nature of God and His unending love for His people. Offer children the chance to learn about the promises God made to His followers in the Bible and the knowledge that they still get to experience these promises today. Each chapter features a promise from God accompanied by a story from the Bible and an application for children today. God Always Keeps His Promises is perfect for children ages 4–8; is a great way to strengthen their faith and encourage them; is a wonderful read-aloud book for Sunday school, homeschooling, or family quiet time before bed; and makes a great gift for holidays including Christmas and Easter, baby showers, or just because. Through beautiful illustrations and compelling stories, share God’s unfailing goodness and faithfulness through the promises He made, how He kept those promises in Bible times, and how He still keeps them today.


Contradict

Contradict

Author: Andy Wrasman

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1490819290

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Tolerance and co-existence are both great! In fact, they are necessary. If we are to live together in peace without hating each other, or physically harming each other over differences in race, culture, sexual orientation, political views, and religious beliefs, we must have tolerance. However, we must also recognize that every belief can't be equally valid. If two beliefs directly contradict each other, both of them cannot be true, no matter how "tolerant" we become. This means it is false to say that every religion is true, or that every religion leads to God. When people make such claims they show that they have not taken the time to study the world's religions, because a brief reading of the sacred texts of only a handful of religions quickly reveals contradictions on the most fundamental levels. Religious Contradictions Reincarnation (Hinduism and Buddhism) contradicts the belief that this is your only life before eternity (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). Salvation from sin (Christianity) contradicts the belief that there is no sin to be saved from but simply pain that can be escaped through enlightenment (Buddhism). Jesus Christ is the incarnate, Son of God (Christianity), contradicts the teaching that he is just a prophet (Islam) or that he was a false prophet (Judaism). In light of these contradictions alone, all religions can't be true. They could all be false, but they can't all be true. Are any of them true? This is the most important question anyone can ask. Recognize religious contradictions. Embrace them. Test them. Seek the truth. www.contradictmovement.org


The Story of Noah and the Ark

The Story of Noah and the Ark

Author:

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780805061819

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Illustrations accompany the Biblical text telling how Noah obeyed God's command to build an ark in order to survive the great flood.


The Promise Is His Presence

The Promise Is His Presence

Author: Glenna Marshall

Publisher: P & R Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781629954738

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God's presence among his people set him apart from ancient pagan gods. His presence on earth as God Incarnate split history in two. And today his presence is one of the most significant means of his goodness to us. Interweaving her story of faith and doubt amid suffering, Glenna traces the theme of God's presence from Genesis to Revelation and shows what it means for us in our own daily joys and struggles.


Fearing Bravely

Fearing Bravely

Author: Catherine McNiel

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1641583266

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Jesus commands us to love our neighbors. So why are so many Christians taught to fear their neighbors? The American church is known as a people who are afraid, who have been nurtured through fear into hatred, and who have moved from hatred to violence--or at least to neglect. This fear, too often lived out boldly in the name of Jesus, is a false religion. God instructs us to welcome strangers. We are not to withhold hospitality or help from anyone in need. So why do we fear strangers, especially those needing hospitality, afraid that their presence may threaten what we have? Jesus taught us to love our enemies. We are to pray for those who actively harm us. Instead, we create enemies in our minds, seeing anyone who thinks, believes, looks, or lives differently from us as dangerous, a threat to our way of living. The Christian community exists to declare and demonstrate God's love and to follow Jesus in practicing love over fear, even in unsafe times and places. It's time to reclaim our brave fear of God and risk transformative love for the sake of our neighbors, the strangers among us, and our enemies. We are people of the Kingdom. Fearing Bravely teaches us that we have nothing to fear. Instead, we can respond to our fear problem with a brave love that emerges from choosing to let our fear of God overcome our fear of everything else. Catherine McNiel writes with conviction, wisely guiding us to recognize our fear and, with God's help, not let it limit us to love courageously all who are among us.