This story is about a prophet named Elijah.  Elijah was a regular man who made mistakes, who was afraid sometimes, yet when it really mattered he trusted God.  Elijah did amazing things with God's help and God did amazing things for Elijah.

A few things you should know before we start the story is that the land of Israel where Elijah was going was very evil.  There was a king named Ahab who believed in a god named Baal (the weather god).   He and most of the people worshipped this god and did ...

This story from the Bible is about Jacob.  If you don't remember he had a twin brother named Esau who he tricked out of his blessing from his father Isaac.  Even though they were twins, Esau was born first so he should've received the special blessing from his father, not Jacob.

Jacob and his mother Rebekah tricked Isaac by making Jacob seem hairy like his brother Esau.  Since Isaac could barely see he wasn't able to tell who was who.  In the end Esau was very upset that he didn't receive the ...

Today's story is about pride.  Pride is when you think you're better than someone else.  The problem with this, is that God hates pride.  When we think we are better than others we also start to think we don't need God and that we can handle things on our own.

The thing is, we ALWAYS need God.  He made us so that we would need Him.  He wants us to depend on Him and ask Him for help.  If we think that we have everything figured out and that we know it all, then we're really going our own way ...

One day God asked a man named Jonah to go to a place called Nineveh and tell the people living there to stop being bad.  The only problem was that Jonah didn't want to help the people there.  He knew they were bad and he wanted them to be punished for their mistakes.

So instead of listening to God, Jonah thought he would run away from Nineveh and not do what God asked him.  He ran to the sea where he found a ship that was going to another city.  He paid the captain, went in the lower part of t...