Happy Sabbath

This next parable started with a man asking Jesus a question.  The man who asks Jesus a question is very smart and was maybe trying to trick Jesus and see if he was a good teacher or not.  This is what he asked, "Teacher, what should I do so I can go to Heaven and live forever?"

Jesus replied, "What is written in the Bible?  What do you think?"  The man answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength, and love your neighbor as yourself."

"That...

God promised Abram and his wife Sarai that one day they would be parents, even though they were old and had no children.

God wasn't sure that Abram understood.  So that night He took him outside, and said, "Do you see all the stars that are in the sky"?  When Abram looked up, the whole night sky was full of stars,  so many in fact that he would never be able to ...

Does everyone remember the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors?  This story takes place many, many years after Joseph - actually it happened about 200 years later!

The people who were from the family of Joseph were called Israelites or Hebrews.  As it happens there were more and more Israelites than ever before.  The Israelites had children, and their children had children and soon there was too many to count.

Most of the Israelites lived in Egypt where there were also a lot of people c...

This story is about a woman named Hannah who really really wanted to have a child.  Every year she would go with her husband to a place called Shiloh.  

While they were there, there would be a big festival and everyone would celebrate all that God did for them.  They would thank God for their crops and everything God gave them, and give sacrifices or presents to God to show how thankful they were.  

This sometimes made Hannah very sad because she wanted so badly to be thankful, but was discoura...

Job and his wife Lived in Uz. 
Job had seven sons and 3 daughter all grown with families of their own. 
Job had much land and livestock and men to help him work. 
Job loved God and worshipped God everyday.

God said to the devil, " Do what you want to all that Job has but do not touch him." 
The devil left God an...