Believing in GodBible Story: Elijah’s Encounter with the 450 Prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. Text: I Kings 18:18-40 Background Text: I Kings 18:1-17 Introduction: Our faith is in a Person, not in doctrine, a church, traditions, these are important though! Believing in God and having faith in God is of vast importance to the […]
This is a lesson I gave at VBS at Cherry Street Church of Christ in New Albany, IN on June 10, 2005Text: Matthew 5:8 INTRO: We need to define the words in our text Another word for “blessed” is “happy.” It means receiving Divine favor. The following passage gives us some insight on the the kind […]
Beyond the Baby By Lanita Bradley Boyd Downtown in last winter’s bitter weather, my friend Casey was walking behind two apparently homeless men. They hunched over, pulling their thin coats around them against the wind. As they shuffled along, they took turns reaching into their shared brown paper sack to break off pieces of bread, […]