The Bible Story Family

WORTHLESS PRAYERS? by Robert Allen             You have a prayer list—GREAT!             How do you use it?             Let me tell you a story.   My wife and I come from fairly large families.   Between the two of us we have around 150 immediate relatives including in-laws, cousins, nephews and nieces.   I have tried regularly to pray through all of those names.   However, the sheer number of people on the list meant that I really didn’t do much more than ask God to bless them—by name of course.             My prayers resembled glancing through Facebook posts and clicking an occasional “like.”   Since God knew all of their names already I realized that my prayers, though well-intentioned, were basically useless.   They ...

Jack and Jill Choose a Church Adapted from “The Preacher as Storyteller” by Robert Allen.                         “Jack and Jill went up a hill                         To fetch a pail of water.                         Jack fell down, and broke his crown,                         And Jill came tumbling after.                         Up Jack got and home did trot,  ...