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Last time we were with Abraham, he had a terrible decision to make. Was he going to sacrifice Isaac in the Land of Moriah or was he going to refuse, or at least argue with God about it? Abraham's response is even more confusing than God's request--absolutely nothing for three whole days. We are starting to see hints about Jesus in this story, and so we will talk about the "type" of Isaac and the "antitype" of Jesus both carrying wood on their backs. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/12/18/episode-162-father-abraham-said-nothing-ru-serious/YouTube (longer version): https://youtu.be/qQKLk8UmszU
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So, this year, I want to talk about Advent, which is a season on a lot of liturgical calendars but is often misunderstood as being another name for Christmas--which it isn't. Advent is a word meaning "the arrival of an important person or event" and because Advent almost always (but not this year) overlaps with Hannukah and many scholars believe Jesus was conceived in the winter and born during the Fall Festivals, I would like to think that the Light of the World was indeed conceived during Hannukah, beginning a nine-month season of waiting with anticipation for His birth for Mary and ourselves looking even more forward to His second coming. Let's tell a "what if" story based on the Gospel of Luke to see what the beginning of Mary's wait might have looked like.Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/12/04/episode-161-jesus-the-hannukah-king/YouTube: https://youtu.be/S-S7AomkCh8
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This week we are looking at the difference between being sad and being ungrateful. I am also talking to the kids about why Jesus was all He had to be and how anything less wouldn’t have been enough to save us.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/26/episode-160-thankfulness-and-the-dayenu-of-jesus/YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q5F9PL4dXOA
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This week, we are beginning the last chapter of Torah Portion Vayers, where God says something shocking to Abraham in order to test him.Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/20/episode-159-abrahams-terrible-test/YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekW1OgGhoWM
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Genesis 12 begins next week and we have two more things we need to learn before that. First of all, we are going to talk theology with typology, which is a fun and clever way to discover clues about Jesus all the way through the entire Bible. Then we get serious and talk about human sacrifice but don’t worry--I am not going to be gross about it. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/12/episode-158-types-antitypes-and-human-sacrifice/YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4Hz5T8QHu8
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To better understand the Akeida in Genesis 22, we need to have some background on the olah offering—also translated as the whole burnt offering or ascending offering. What was it? How was it different from other sacrifices? Why did they believe that God needed smoke in order to smell it? This lesson is going to give us a lot of ancient Near Eastern context!
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/10/31/episode-157-what-is-an-olah-offering/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ad-8iFZnUpI
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Oh my gosh, we start Genesis 22 in two weeks and can you believe it? The Bible hasn’t mentioned love even once! Is that a problem? Not really. Love will be mentioned for the first time in chapter 22. And it isn’t even God’s love. This week we will talk about how God has been showing His love and faithfulness and loyalty in a lot of ways even though the word isn’t mentioned—and when we really want to see God’s love in action, there is no better lesson than the life of Jesus.Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/10/23/episode-156-being-like-jesus-love-part-1/YouTube: https://youtu.be/jJDlLUgeo7w
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Wow, here we are at the end of Genesis chapter twenty-one at last! Before taking a break for the Fall Festivals, we’re going to look at the consequences of not being trusted as well as not being trustworthy—as both Abraham and Abimelech know very well. And we’ll be talking about sheep, wells, and planting trees in the middle of the desert!Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/09/25/episode-155-abrahams-stolen-well-and-a-new-covenant/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLiDI1wuJEU
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Oh man, I hate this portion of the Bible. It’s so messy and sad and frustrating. Abraham is upset about Sarah wanting Ishmael gone forever—I mean, of course he is! God hasn’t chimed in but when He does, it’s shocking so we will need to get an explanation. God isn’t done with Hagar or Ishmael yet, and Hagar is going to get one more visit before she exits the Biblical account of her life.Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/09/18/episode-154-do-whatever-sarah-says/YouTube: https://youtu.be/pqYl7zMx-9o
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A huge theme in ancient writings (and especially the Bible) is the difference between foolish and wise people. When we aren’t aware of it, we are tempted to look at everything people are doing in the Bible as examples of what is good and right but the Bible isn’t that sort of book. It’s a book about God being wise and putting up with humans—when even the best of them do some incredibly foolish things. The contrast shows us how patient and kind God is. Another word for patience is long-suffering because that’s what best describes God and how He must suffer in dealing with our nonsense! So, what does it mean to be a fool in the Bible and in our lives today. What does it mean to be wise?Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/09/04/episode-153-the-fools-and-the-wise-in-the-bible/YouTube: https://youtu.be/PZFYw7uqAGE
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Hurray! Isaac is weaned and has passed through the very dangerous first three years of life in the ancient world. Abraham throws a big party to celebrate but not everyone is happy. What happens when seventeen-year-old Ishmael expresses his anger over being replaced by a toddler? Why did Sarah even think that her solution was okay? In talking about the rejection of Ishmael, we’ll also have a conversation about the rejection of the Messiah and the difference between what is normal vs what is good.Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/08/28/episode-152-sarahs-disturbing-demand/YouTube: https://youtu.be/tNZTet_2qgU
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We’ve been waiting for ten chapters, since Sarah was introduced at the end of chapter 11, and finally Isaac is here. But why is the story so short??? In fact, why are all the stories about Isaac so short? For someone we’ve been anxiously waiting for so long, he doesn’t get nearly as much attention as his father Abraham and his son Jacob. Sometimes the mysteries tell us just as much as the long stories do.Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/08/22/episode-151-shes-having-a-baby-and-shes-ninety/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/MghzUjfDcPA
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Few things are less understood and acknowledged than God's incredible patience, and there’s no better time to discuss the patience of God than when we are beginning to wrap up the story of Abraham, Sarah, Ishmael, and Hagar. Impatience wrecked their family peace while God’s patience leads to Jesus! And Jesus shows us God’s patience in how He dealt with His very annoying disciples.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/08/14/episode-150-being-like-jesus-patience/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/8CN5QHtLefU
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Anyone who knows me knows how much I enjoy studying the history of the ancient Near East because it is also the history around the Bible. But what is it? Where is it? And how is it different from the Greco-Roman Near East of Jesus? And does it make any difference?
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/08/07/episode-149-what-is-the-ancient-near-east/YouTube: https://youtu.be/kRAxGPzjLIU
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I have been wanting to do this lesson for a long time and I wish someone had shared all of this with me—or even any of it with me—when I was a beginner. We never read anything without translating it in our own minds, and the Bible is no exception. We read the Bible and decide what it means based on our own lives, understandings, and what we have heard from others. How does the Spirit help us with our reading and what doesn’t the Spirit do? Is every thought while we are reading the Bible from God? How does God use Bible reading and Bible study (not the same thing) in our lives?Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/07/31/episode-148-what-happens-when-we-read-the-bible/YouTube: https://youtu.be/2FNwXGhfRUU
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Our last teaching in Genesis 20. Abimelech finally does what he should have done in the first place if he wanted to marry Sarah, and he finds himself in the unpleasant position of having to reward someone who lied to him so that Abraham will pray for him and his household. Although this would have made sense to Abimelech, what are we supposed to think about it?
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/07/18/episode-147-abimelech-pays-and-abraham-prays/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zuo_sYdhGXk
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God is getting Sarah back home, but Abraham starts making excuses—can we believe any of them, or is he just trying to keep himself out of trouble? Abimelech is furious, and so are his people when they hear about Abraham’s plan. But what are we supposed to think about all of this? And what do we do when a friend tells us to lie if we want to still be friends?Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/07/10/episode-146-is-sarah-really-abrahams-sister/YouTube: https://youtu.be/UnHI2aR4Vo4
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Considering the fact that Abimelech has kidnapped Sarah, it’s shocking to us that when he tells God how innocent he is, God agrees. But God is most certainly not giving Abimelech a pass and makes a terrifying threat that Abimelech had better do what is right—or else.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/07/07/episode-145-is-abimelech-really-as-innocent-as-he-thinks/YouTube: https://youtu.be/fnkgPu079nE
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Audio fixed on this--my apologies. I uploaded the parent version. You’re not going to believe this but we’re going to have a replay of Genesis 12 where Abraham lies to Pharaoh about Sarah his wife and gets her into more trouble. How is this time the same? How is it different? And how is God going to get her out of it this time? And who is Abimelech and who are the mysterious Philistines?
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/06/25/episode-144-abraham-sarah-abimelech-and-the-big-lie/YouTube: https://youtu.be/-sk7BXt8dj4
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We are circling back to talking about what it means to become more like Jesus again because, as we will see again next week when we start Genesis 20, Abraham has a real problem with lying when he is scared and not trusting God. What did Jesus do when He was afraid? What does the Bible tell us about lying and when is it the right or wrong thing to do?Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/06/12/episode-143-becoming-like-jesus-honesty/YouTube: https://youtu.be/WzRuQjsi4Lg
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