Finding Hope Through Discovery in Bible Study

Hope for a Deceiver Grace Abounds   May 28, 2022 Larry R Evans   Introduction   It has been said that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. Such an insight begs another question, “What does the world learn about God by watching us, His followers, on earth?”   I remember a traumatic day in my ministry some years ago. I was the conference president at the time. One of our well-known employees had disappeared. His family had no idea where he was or what had happened. His abandoned car was found near a lake. The news spread and the community became alarmed. A massive search with police helicopters and hours of detective work turned up nothing. Newspaper and television reporters followed the story. Foul play was suspected. Prayer vigils took place asking that God might intervene. He did intervene. The employee was found hundreds of miles away. The truth eventually emerged that our respected employee had faked his deat...

Who Am I and Why Am I Here? How Abraham ’ s Experience Helps Us Answer These Questions for Ourselves   May 14, 2022 Larry R Evans   Introduction   Several years ago social scientists from Johns Hopkins University launched a two-year study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Forty-eight colleges, 7, 948 students, were surveyed. The students were asked what they considered “very important” to them at that time. Sixteen percent of the students checked “making a lot of money”; 78% said their  first goal was “finding a purpose and meaning to my life .” The search for personal meaning has been with us for a long time.   Viktor E. Frankl in his book  Man’s Search for Meaning  suggests that  “Man’s  search for meaning is the primary motivation  in his life . . .This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meanin...