Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
In my head, I have a picture from every detective show I’ve every watched. At some point, there some sort of bulletin board with character names, timelines, possible motives, what is known, and questions. That’s what I’d like to do this week with our three characters that we have been studying: GOD, ABRAM, and SARAI.… Read More
GOD CHOOSES THE MOST UNLIKELY PEOPLE Did God choose this couple because they were worthy, because of their outstanding attributes and earned it? Were they the “best of the best”? If that is what you thought, these verses may cause us to question that idea. And that also gives us HOPE, because we don’t have… Read More
GOD CHOOSES THE MOST UNLIKELY PEOPLE When God is looking for someone to follow Him, he chooses La Crème de la Crème—the best of the best. NOT!! Our blog-Bible-study is a part of the “Most Unlikely People” Series, and in this chapter we see some reasons for the series title. What happens when the rubber… Read More
Yesterday we focused on our relationship with God and dug into the idea that “what we believe about God affects our lives.” Unless we truly believe that God is good all the time, when bad things happen to us, we may struggle and lose our way. As we read through the story of Abram and… Read More
Scripture: Genesis 12:6-9 6 Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land. 7 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him. 8 He… Read More
Character sketches are a tool to help us understand Bible stories more fully, to identify with the people, and to learn from their lives as they walked with God. I am writing out of reformed, Bible-centric, Holy-Spirit-led world and life view, seeing into these stories out of what could be called “my bias.” And I… Read More
SET THE SCENE Abram entered Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age (2200-1550 BC). Palestine was inhabited in scattered city-states, and was not as densely populated or urbanized as Mesopotamia had been (Abram’s original home). Contemporary records from ancient Palestine are rare, and much of what is known comes from Egyptian texts. Over Abram’s lifetime, contact… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 