BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND GRAVE STONES (1 OF 2)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Genesis 5:1-32
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Birth Certificates and Grave Stones (1 of 2)
Series: The Boringest Passages in the Bible
Jeff Strite
Genesis 5:1-32
OPEN: The story's told of an old Scottish minister who was reading from the opening chapter of Matthew. He started reading, ''Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah…''
Then it suddenly occurred to him how long this list was and, not certain he wanted to read all of that, he looked up from his text and said ''and they kept on begetting one another all the way down this page and halfway into the next.''
About a month ago or so, I was in a meeting with some of the staff and one of the young men said that he had determined to read the whole Bible through, but he didn't really want to read the ''boring parts''.
I explained to him that there weren't really any boring parts of Scripture. All it took was a little studying and even the dryest parts of the Bible would come alive. To prove it I challenged him to give him the boringest passages he could think of and I would preach a series of sermons using those texts.
Today's sermon is the first of three based on the boringest parts of Scripture he could think of.
As I was growing up I was led to believe that the Bible was a boring book. I didn't get that impression from my church or my family, but my hometown was a college community, and there were many people there who held that opinion.
In fact this is such a widely held belief (that the Bible is boring) that it's one of the main reasons many folks don't read it.
And it was one of the reasons I hadn't read it during my youth either. When I went to Purdue University, I finally decided I should read the Bible all the way through. I figured ''Hey, since I want to be a preacher I really ought to read this thing''
So, before I began to read I made a deal with God. I told Him ''I'll read everything but the prophecy, the poetry and the 'who begat who's'.'' (Of all the boring parts of Scripture I could think of… thes ...
Series: The Boringest Passages in the Bible
Jeff Strite
Genesis 5:1-32
OPEN: The story's told of an old Scottish minister who was reading from the opening chapter of Matthew. He started reading, ''Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah…''
Then it suddenly occurred to him how long this list was and, not certain he wanted to read all of that, he looked up from his text and said ''and they kept on begetting one another all the way down this page and halfway into the next.''
About a month ago or so, I was in a meeting with some of the staff and one of the young men said that he had determined to read the whole Bible through, but he didn't really want to read the ''boring parts''.
I explained to him that there weren't really any boring parts of Scripture. All it took was a little studying and even the dryest parts of the Bible would come alive. To prove it I challenged him to give him the boringest passages he could think of and I would preach a series of sermons using those texts.
Today's sermon is the first of three based on the boringest parts of Scripture he could think of.
As I was growing up I was led to believe that the Bible was a boring book. I didn't get that impression from my church or my family, but my hometown was a college community, and there were many people there who held that opinion.
In fact this is such a widely held belief (that the Bible is boring) that it's one of the main reasons many folks don't read it.
And it was one of the reasons I hadn't read it during my youth either. When I went to Purdue University, I finally decided I should read the Bible all the way through. I figured ''Hey, since I want to be a preacher I really ought to read this thing''
So, before I began to read I made a deal with God. I told Him ''I'll read everything but the prophecy, the poetry and the 'who begat who's'.'' (Of all the boring parts of Scripture I could think of… thes ...
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