I have often wondered why Matthew includes five women in his genealogy of Jesus. It wasn’t until I was preparing for this lesson that I think I came up with…

I do not believe that the Lord ever gives us a task without providing the resources we will need to carry out the responsibility. In the first few verses of…

Do any of us ever reach the point in life where we are old enough or wise enough to avoid failure? No. It is very likely that the older some…

A month has passed between the time Israel departed from Egypt to the time the nation reached the Wilderness of Sin. Water had already been a problem (Exodus 15:22-26) and…

Do you realize that the coming of the Israelites to the Red Sea was just as much a part of His plan as their crossing it?  In God’s hands, what seemed…

When God appeared to Moses at the burning bush he called him to the task of leading the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage. In response, Moses gave excuses…

When we consider "the Patriarchs" in the book of Genesis, there is one to whom more space is devoted. As a matter of fact, there is no single word of…

I want to direct your minds to Jacob and to what God did in his life to bring about such a change. I think that as you examine the things…

Jacob was the son of Isaac and Rebekah and the fraternal twin to Esau, his older brother. At his birth, he was given the name Jacob because he was holding…

Let's consider two events from the life of Rebekah. As you may remember Rebekah was the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob. The story of Rebekah…