I set the stage for digging deeper into the story of Abraham and Isaac in The Story of Abraham and Isaac Revisited: Introduction. Abraham’s faith is the lesson we all learned in Sunday school. Faith is the basic place we start, but Abraham’s faith is o
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
And we see faith in an unexpected person -- Hagar, an Egyptian slave.Sarah Gives Hagar to Abraham (16:1-4a)"Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; so she said to Abram, 'The Lord has kept me from having children. Go...
What did Abraham Lincoln do as a child? As a child, Lincoln worked on his family's farm to help provide for them. He did attend school when time permitted, but that was far and few between. He also found moments of fun to share with his big sister, Sarah.Create...
God promised Abraham his descendants would be as many as the number of stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach. Since Abraham was an old man and had no children when God told him this, it must have been difficult to believe, but God kept his promise when Isaac was born. He...
Thomas Lincoln remarried the next year, and Abraham loved his new stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. She brought three children of her own into the household. Abraham attended school at irregular intervals. In all he spent less than 12 months going to school, and he didn't attend ...
AbrahamLincolnwas born February 12‚ 1809 at sunrise. His birthplace was a one-room log cabin‚ which was sixteen feet long and eighteen feet wide. The tiny cabin had only one dimly-lit window and hard-packed earth for flooring. WhenAbrahamwas six years old he and his sister Sarah wal...
Dave Johnson (LCHS '56): His Web Site for the Lincoln Community High School Class of 1956 Sportswriter David Kindred: Memoir of His Grandmother Lena & Her West Side Tavern on Sangamon Street in the Route 66 Era Judge Jim Knecht (LCHS '62): Memoir and Short Story, "Other People's Money...
soweshouldbemindfulofwhatthemostsuccessfulexperienceofthisfaith'sancestorhastaughtus: WhichwasasacrificeaccordingtoGod'swill APAbrahamIsaacwillgivetoGod,becauseheisveryclearthewillofgod.ItisnotasmallthingtopresentIsaactogod.Isaacwasnotonlyhisonlyson,buthewasbornwhenhewasold,andhewasgiventhepromiseofgod.How...
A.How and when we celebrate Thanksgiving. B.The traditional Thanksgiving dinner. C.When Thanksgiving began. D.Abraham Lincoln. 点击查看答案 第3题 Did Sarah Josepha Hale write “Mary’s Little Lamb,” the eternal nursery rhyme(儿歌)about girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb? This is sti...