Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church
A 'NEW AND IMPROVED' JESUS?
Sermons For Lent And Easter
This Old Testament lesson is a story of failure, but there is a great truth for all of us in it. I had a dear friend who used to say, "Every man is my teacher. I either learn what to do from him, or what not to do." It reminds me of a cartoon, which showed a bum sitting on a park bench; his clothes were tattered and torn, his toes were coming out of his shoes - the stereotypical hobo. Beneath the picture was the caption, "No man is completely worthless - he can always serve as a horrible example." And so from this Genesis text we learn from it what to avoid doing rather than what to do.