Want to learn more about Origins? Use these Bible Studies for personal devotion, group Bible studies, or teaching a church class. Below are links to the lessons in this 13-part series.
Introduction: Recently, a terrorist moved into my neighborhood. Never has anyone broken into our home. I feel safe walking in my neighborhood at night. The terrorist, however, is trying to change all that. She started a neighborhood watch and began regularly sen...
Introduction: Let's assume that you are going out to buy a new car this week. Except for paying for it, that would be a lot of fun, right? Think about what qualities you would like in a new car? What qualities would you avoid? Now consider two new cars. One was...
Introduction: Evolutionists and assorted "Old Earth" advocates like to point out that the Bible is not a science book. It is not about biology, chemistry, physics or genetics. I think we can agree on this. So, the question is, "What is the Bible about?" I sugges...
Introduction: One problem that some Christians, especially new converts, seem to have is difficulty in distinguishing between theological issues which are important and those which are not. These Christians waste all sorts of time paying attention to things which...
Introduction: Do you know moral people who do not seem religious or believe in God? On what is their morality based? Today, we have competing views on what is moral. On one side is a belief in equality - that all ideas, all philosophies and all opinions are equ...
Introduction: Making a mistake is critical to improving. The mistake reveals what went wrong and how to improve in the future. The world is filled with two classes of people: those who mostly learn (if at all) from their own mistakes, and those who mostly learn f...
Introduction: I'm currently reading the book Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. Except in the area of physics, Taleb thinks that tinkerers, rather than scientists, are responsible for most of our "scientific" advances. A poster child for Taleb's theory is Steve Jobs, a...
Introduction: There is an old saying that if we give a person a fish, that will help for one meal. If we give them a fishing pole and tackle, that will make the person self-sufficient. How does God take care of us? Is He handing out fish all the time, or has He g...
Introduction: Have you wondered why Satan approached Eve when he sought to drag humanity into sin? Genesis 3:6 says that Adam was "with" Eve, but it does not say exactly when he arrived. The fact that God tells Adam that his sin was to "listen to your wife" (...
Introduction: "It's all going to burn." A young friend of mine would greet all bad news about his possessions with that statement. What happens to your stuff is unimportant, he thought, because it will ultimately be destroyed. Does that make sense to you? Is th...
Introduction: Think about a time when you forgot an event important to your spouse, a family member or a friend. What was your excuse for forgetting? My excuse is that I'm too busy, meaning that I am focused on something else. Frankly, I hate that excuse because...
Introduction: My dear Jewish friend dismisses Jesus as "that itinerant teacher." He does not believe that 2,000 years ago God became man and authoritatively dealt with the sin problem. What is God's answer to these kinds of charges? How many times have you sat i...
Introduction: Have you ever taken a picture and realized that the focus was on the wrong point? This morning I read a headline that said 1/3 of the people who die of old age are affected by dementia. If you look forward to retirement, do you also look forward to...
