Abraham & Isaac & Jesus

Continuing through the Gospel Project Chronological, this last week has been amazing.  In addition to the curriculum, our church is providing weekly Bible readings that go along with the lessons. While all of the focuses have been great, this week’s was very significant for two reasons: 1) Jesus saved my son, Obadiah, through the reading …

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God’s Covenant with Abraham

Continuing through the Gospel Project Chronological, we have come to the part of Scripture detailing God’s Covenant with Abraham. In this session, we will learn that God is a covenant-making God.  Because of sin, the people on earth had been separated from God (Eden) and each other (Babel), but God chose one man, one family, …

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God Has to Humble Himself to Behold Our Extravagance

Our church is loving the Gospel Project Chronological!  Just six weeks in and all ages are learning so much and uniting together through discussion and application.  Amazing to watch. In this week’s session, we see humanity’s propensity for inventing ways to build up our own prestige and bring honor to ourselves.  As we build our …

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God, Cain, and Abel

I have learned so much from our study in Genesis 4 this week. This biblical story has been a major part of my life this week: My wife and I studied it together. My discipleship group studied it. My children learned about it. Our college group studied it. Our Bible reading plan went around it. …

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The Cross Disarms the Cherubim

I was excited about others learning a lot in the Gospel Project.  I was thrilled when I saw how much my children were learning.  Have I mentioned how much this material is pushing and teaching me? Here are some of what I have been learning this last week as we studied “Human Rebellion” in Genesis …

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How Was Eve Supposed to Help Adam?

Our church has been enjoying the Gospel Project curriculum.  I have heard so many great comments from all ages! This week, it was great how time with our college group studying Genesis 2 led to discussions about dating and marriage. After God created all things by using his words (or the Word), he created one …

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Creation & Legos

Studying the Scripture together as a family is important.  Studying the Scripture as a church is important.  If you can combine those two things, you can make some significant progress!

We unite our church’s curriculum so that all ages are all learning the same thing at the same time.  It’s so helpful for church and family discipleship to take place more naturally.  As I learn in my group, I know what my kids are learning and we can stay on the same page throughout the week.

One night, I was asking my children what they knew about Creation, Eli (7) told me what God created on each day, Obadiah (7) told me that all things created were meant to give God glory, and Gloria (3) told me that everything God created was good.  I think they were getting it!

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Lyrics to “How We’ve Fallen”

So far, we have shared 5 songs from “The Word” project on a Sunday morning.  Yesterday, the fifth offering was a song entitled “How We’ve Fallen” and it tells the story of Adam and Eve succumbing to temptation and bringing about the Fall of Mankind (Genesis 3).  Since we were in James 1:15-17 on temptation, …

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Alpha-Bits and Creation

The craziest thing happened the other morning. I had overslept and was chaotically running around the house trying to get ready in time for work.  As I ran by the kitchen table, I saw the most peculiar thing. A box of Alpha-Bits had been overturned on the table, some of the cereal had spilled out, …

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God’s Plan for Your Family Is Not Complex

God’s plan for your family is not complex. We make it that way, but it really is not. This is the plan – God wants to reconcile the world to himself and he plans on doing that through Christ-following parents teaching their children to follow Christ and it multiplies from there. Abraham’s Job Let me …

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