Week 10: The New Testament and Adoption Cont’d Day 1: The Final Stamp – (Ephesians 1:12-14) We always used to joke that in order to get anything done in Russia you had to have two things: A Spravka (certificate) and a Pechat’ (stamp). The stamp was particularly important because even if you had the spravka, …
NT 2:1 Alms, Alms For The Poor
Week 2, Day 1: Alms, Alms For the Poor Matthew 6:1-4; Luke 12:33,34 When I was a little girl, my sisters and I used to go around mimicking the old animated Disney version of Robin Hood: “Alms,” quakes Robin Hood (a caped fox wearing a blind man’s sunglasses), “Alms for the poor.” We would close …
OT 2:4 – Job’s First Defense
Week 2 – Lessons From Job Day 4: Job’s First Defense: Job 29: 11,12 Job’s answer to Eliphaz’s accusation all but silences Job’s friends. Bildad makes a pitiful attempt at a protest in chapter twenty-five (which is all of six verses long!), but from there on, they have little to say. Three chapters into his …
