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“GOD’S MISSION FOR ABRAHAM: The Undiscovered Country!” by Dr. Stan Helton
ASSEMBLY TIMES Abraham serves as have to run to Egypt to escape a
an exemplar for famine in the good land God
Sunday Morning:
those who promised him, he will nearly lose
10:30am would accept his wife twice to protect his own
Full Family Fellowship God’s call. life, and his relationship with his
Abram, as he was nephew Lot will disintegrate.
Thursday Evening:
Henry Blackaby and Claude King known in the early Moreover, attempting to make
point out in their spiritually for- years of his life, was living among God’s call work to his benefit,
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mative book, Experiencing God this family in the center of civiliza- Abraham will seek to adopt his
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(1994), that when “God invites tion among the ancient people of servant; his wife Sarah will seek to
___ you to work with Him,” you will Babylon (known as Sumer by his- speed the process along by offer-
CONTACT INFO be led to “a crisis of belief that torians). The city of Ur, his home- ing her servant Hagar to Abraham
requires faith and action.” They town, was well-known for its lux- so they can have a heir; and to
add to this that you “must make ury and sophistication. Ur was a top it off, Sarah will laugh at God’s
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major adjustments in your life to someplace. Important people messengers when they promise
Village of Kenosee Lake
join God in what He is doing.” This came to live in Ur. that she will have a child. You see,
crisis of faith hinges on whether when God calls you, you will
Box 184 you will accept God’s invitation. have to make some radical
One day the predictability of his
S0C 2S0 Will you say “yes” or “no”? a d - justments.
life was shattered forever. God
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If you accept God’s mission, the try, your people and your father’s Nonetheless, in the end, Abraham
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authors would remind us, then family and go to the land I will and Sarah will show that they are
LEADERSHIP your life is about to change signifi- show you. But Abraham does not committed to God’s plan. Despite
cantly. The biblical stories bear actually get to “own” the land, Abraham’s missteps and occa-
Elders: this out. No one God has ever outside of being buried there. The sional lack of faith, he proves
Cameron Husband called was allowed to live life as it land, however, was only a part of faithful even if it means sacrificing
Harold Floyd had been previously. Think of the package that God had planned the promised heir—because he
Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, for Abraham. The God who called learns that the God who calls is
Dale King
Joshua, Rahab, Deborah, Samson, promised: I will make you into a also the God who is faithful.
Jim Sedor
David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Ezra, great nation and I will bless you …
Nehemiah, Jesus, His apostles, and all peoples on earth will be This God has a mission for you. He
Minister: and Paul, just to name a few. blessed through you. Sounds like wants to lead you to the yet un-
Rolland Bouchard Their lives were radically changed a good deal, right? Yet before
discovered country.
because they accepted God’s call. Abraham’s story is over, he will
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Confidence In Scripture
August 22, 2010 — by Dennis Fisher
This puzzle consists of 26 rows of letters with one empty The skeptic questions, doubts, and scoffs,
space in each row. There is one place for each letter of the Protesting truths we hold so dear;
alphabet in the 26 empty squares. Fill in each letter so that a But God’s Word stands, its truth remains,
word of at least 5 letters is formed reading across only. Not Proclaiming what we need to hear. —K. De Haan
all the letters in each row are used; it's up to you to discover
which ones are needed to complete the right words. Some of Taken from:
the letters may fit in more than one of the empty squares to http://odb.org/2010/08/22/confidence-in-scripture/
complete words; however only one arrangement of all the
letters of the alphabet will complete a word in each row.
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