Finding Hope Through Discovery in Bible Study

  A New Kind of Honesty Dying Like a Seed   September 24, 2022 Larry R Evans Introduction           “The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful,                       a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, GOD, search the heart                       and examine the mind.           I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things.  – Jeremiah 17:9,10, The Message Perhaps you’ve heard the old story about a navy warship that was heading through the fog one night when a distant, faint light appeared directly in their heading.  As they continued, it got brighter, and the captain walked to the helm to assess the situation. About the time, a voice came over the radio and said, ‘Attention. Calling the vessel traveling eighteen knots on a 220 heading, adjust your course thirty degrees, immediately.’   The captain got on the radio and responded, ‘This is the vessel on the 220 heading. You adjust your course thirty degrees.’   ‘Negative, Captain. You adjust,’ came the reply. ‘I a

  The Waiting Father AND The Waiting Church   September 10, 2022 Larry R Evans   When you think of “waiting” what comes to mind for you? For a pregnant mother, no doubt what comes to mind is the anticipated birth of the baby she will have carried for nine months. For a teenager, it might be the day he or she gets a driver’s license.  When I think about waiting, I remember when I was a child and the days leading up to Christmas. Then when Christmas Eve came my siblings, and I would longingly look out the window and stare at the long driveway leading to our house. We knew that Dad would eventually be driving down that dusty farm road and when he did,  . . . we would celebrate by opening our presents.  Waiting is part of life; at times it is filled with joy and sometimes it can come with a sense of crushing agony.   How we wait is often determined by what we are waiting for.    In Luke 15  we find a father waiting for the return of a son whom He deeply loves but who abandoned him, the hom