God promised Abraham a son when Abraham was 75. God made him wait 25 years for the fulfillment of that promise. It wasn’t until he was 100 that Sarah gave birth to their promised son, Isaac. When Isaac, whose name means Laughter, was weaned, his half-brother Ishmael mocked him. Thus God expelled the slave woman,

by Diane Boring I have had the privilege to sit under very good Bible teaching. I have learned the importance of being a Berean (Acts 17:11). I heard one speaker at a GES Conference tell of his intense discussions and debates with Zane Hodges over the meaning of certain passages. He said that in those

by Marlene Mills I remember, as a child, that my mother always kept a diary. Every now and then someone would say, “It’s never been this hot in October!” and my mom would pull out her diary, flip a few pages, and say, “Yes, it has. It was 83 degrees on the 17th of October,

by Ivy Brooks I talk often with people about eternal life. I almost always ask questions in order to determine whether or not they understand that eternal life is forever, that they can never lose it or give it back. I regularly encounter various answers that disclose that they are not “getting it.” I discovered

Church Spotlight Grace Bible Chapel, Corinth, TX Disciples Making Disciples   We first started discussing the need for a new church during the summer of 2009. Our group of friends were troubled by the under representation of Free Grace theology, the lack of expository teaching, and the increasing influence of the Neo-Reform movement. It seemed

Genesis 5 tells us in a grabbing way the result of the fall. God had warned that if Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, death would result. While Adam and Eve began the death process the very day they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they did

This article was first published in the GES News seventeen years ago in July of 1994. Paul stated a timeless truth when he wrote: Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. —Rom 3:20 Even under the law in