Eccles' Stories

  Genesis 21 1-2     Sarah pregnant in old age.     3    Son born to be named Issac.     4    Issac circumcised at eight days old.      5   Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born.  6-7   All will laugh with Sarah, for she had a baby in her old age.      8  Great feast for Issac. 10      Ishmael cast out! 12      God told Abraham to listen to Sarah. 12-13 Both sons will make great nations. 14-16 Hagar and Ishmael sent away with provisions. 17-21  Told to arise, for Ishmael will make a great nation. 22-24   Oath made by Abraham to Abimelech. 23-25 Quarrel between Abraham and Abimelech 26-31  Beersheba 30-36  Abraham plants a terebinth tree, and stays in the Philistine land many days. Genesis Twenty-Two 1-2       God tests Abraham to see if any man would later do what He would have to do to ...

 Genesis Eleven 1  The whole earth spoke one language.                                                                                                        3 Make bricks                                                                                                                                                4  Make a name for themselves and build a tower....

               To begin this study, we must all agree that the entire Bible was written for the understanding of all mankind.  That being said, the following are my meditations on the book of Genesis, chapters 1-10. Genesis One   1  If we cross-reference verse one with John 1:1-3, we find that Christ was there in the beginning if we see Christ as being the Word, 14-15 Was the beginning of time as we know it.  Notice no Big Bang.                                                        27        Tells us man was not made from monkey, but made from God alone.                                               Genesis Two 11-14 Though the Bible tells us wher...

           Our lesson will come from Proverbs 13:20: "He who walks with the wise                                                                                                                                   men will be wise                                                                                                                      ...

                     Do you really know me?  Do you know my victories or disasters?  For the most part,  you do not.  That is the role life has played in my life; Christ has played since I was ten!                   For at ten I accepted Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.  This was all made possible  when Christ went to the cross, died for our sins, and was resurrected again in three days.  It was after  that that Christ sent the Holy Spirit to be our comforter.                   He knows our feelings and thoughts at this very hour.  May Christ bring the Holy Spirit  into your life through baptism today. PDE

       Count your troubles as joys, for they give you an opportunity to preach Christ crucified.  An  example of this is found in Acts 5:40-42: "And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the  apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of  Jesus, and let  them go.  So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were worthy to suffer  shame for His name.  And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and  preaching Jesus as the Christ.  Being beaten was the apostles' troubles; we find it caused them to not  cease preaching Christ as their opportunity.            In Acts 16:25-34, it tells how Paul and Silas were in jail (that is their trouble), and they praised  God, and were released.  In the long run, they saved the jailor as well as the jailor's whole household, which was t...