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TeacherAide The First Epic SESSION 13 ILLUSTRATING
THE POINT
Name Game At
church one morning, my friend Gwen was about to start her 4-year-olds' Sunday
school class when a little boy showed up without any identification. Gwen
managed to get his first name, but couldn't find out his last name.
"Brian, what's your daddy's name?" she asked. "Daddy," he
replied. She tried again, "Brian, what's your mommy's name?"
"Mommy," he answered. Suddenly she realized exactly how she could
get the answer she needed. "Brian, what does your daddy call your
mommy?" His face lit up. With a grin and a deep voice, he replied,
"Hey, Babe." - Today’s
Christian Woman, “Heart to Heart” Eight is
Enough Being one
of eight children, I’m used to hearing remarks about the size of our family.
Once when my father had taken four of us to the grocery store, a woman asked
him, “Are these all of your children?” “Oh,
no,” he innocently replied. Seeing the
look of relief on her face, Dad said with a twinkle in his eye, “The other
four are at home.”- Christian Reader THE
MORE YOU KNOW
It is interesting that for this
section of Genesis 10-11 we have the establishment of the nations of the world.
All the nations with their various languages were descendants of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. Japheth’s descendants would settle to the north, east, and west of
Ararat. Ham’s descendants would move east, south, and southwest into
Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Africa. Shem’s family settled to the northwest and
southeast of the Canaanites. This section also reveals God’s plan
to bless the human race by dividing the family of man by languages, locations,
and leaders. Before, God had blessed the earth by dividing the light from the
darkness, the earth from the heavens, and the land from the seas in Genesis
Chapter 1. Within the list of descendants of
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, there is only one person who is personally described.
The grandson of Ham and the son of Cush was Nimrod. Genesis 10:9 describes him
as a mighty hunter before the Lord. Many theologians believe that Nimrod was a
warrior and founded the region of the Assyrians and the Babylonians. From this
point of view, it can be possible understood that Ham’s grandson became a
great nemesis to the sons of Shem in Israel later.
THOUGHT
I HEARD YOU SAY “Throughout the years I wanted to
disbelieve (Christ’s) story. But I thought on this record it would be more
interesting to open my mind and believe it on my own terms. He was the first
celebrity, the first rock star.”- Marilyn Manson “Two men look out through the same
bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.”- Fredrick Langbridge
“We have a society which is
psychiatrized in the same sense in which medieval European society was
Christianized, religionized—everything was a matter of religion. Now
everything is a matter of psychiatry, from homosexuality, to heroin, to
murder.”- Thomas Szasz
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