Happy Sabbath

Just before Israel marched across the Jordan River to begin their conquest of Canaan they stopped in Moab to camp. Balak, the king of Moab was worried that they would go to war against him so he summoned a Pagan prophet named Balaam to curse Israel so Moab would not be conquered. 

          Balaam had a reputation for being a successful magician of sorts. The people he blessed were blessed and those he cursed were cursed (Num. 22:6).  But the Lord told Balaam not to go to Balak because Israel ...

The story of Gideon starts out with God not being very happy with his people, the Israelites.  If you remember the Israelites were the ones God saved from Pharaoh.  The people Moses led across the Red Sea on dry ground.

Hundreds of years had passed since then but throughout all of God's miracles they had experienced, they still did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

There were consequences for these actions.  That means that when they did something wrong God didn't bless them but gave them into the ...

Sometimes when we read the Bible, we wonder why God cared about some of the things He cared about.  The story of Cain and Abel is one of those stories for some people.

A long time ago, just after Adam and Eve had to leave the garden of Eden, they were very sad about disobeying God.  They asked God how they could show Him how sorry they were.  God told them that they could show Him how they felt by sacrificing a lamb, which they did.

After awhile, Adam and Eve had two sons.  Their first son was ...

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 an...