... taking away their common language and he gives them many different ones so that they can no longer communicate with each other. This story is yet another lesson of the power of God and man's refusal to follow God. (Von Rad, 149) The genealogy of Terah represents a shift in view from the ... desire fulfilled, but then God subjects him to the greatest trial of faith by demanding Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham obeys and is stopped only just before he kills him. In this act God is testing Abraham's faithfulness and at seeing its unwavering strength, he blesses Abraham's descendants. The singl...

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... that? Stephen Spielberg uses special effects to get our attention, and they are not even real, but it works. God's special effects are real; and they work even better! The lesson here is that we must be careful not to get caught up in the special effects, but pay attention to the real story. The real story was God's compassion for ... , "Learn to do right. Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." - Isa 1:17 Isaiah gave this word of God long before the birth of Jesus, but the message is like that of Jesus. I must ask myself, ...

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... like it was yesterday. It was a rainy Sunday when I was fifteen and I was at Sunday School at my temple. There was a carnival at my high school that day and I was dying to go, but like every other Sunday, my mom made me go to temple. I was never really involved in going to temple and learning about Judaism and I went because I had ... I stepped into the airport, I had never been so nervous and scared. I was all alone and I had to walk in and make friends with people I have never seen or heard about before. I was really worried about if I was wearing the right thing or if I was going to ...

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