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    Abraham--God's Brave Explorer
    Abraham--God's Brave Explorer
    Abraham--God's Brave Explorer
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    Abraham--God's Brave Explorer

    By Kay Arthur and Janna Arndt

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    This exciting addition to Kay Arthur and Janna Arndt's Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids series takes readers and characters Max, Molly, and Sam along the rugged Oregon Trail. With God's trail map, the Bible, they set out on a wagon train to discover the lessons Abraham learned when he left his home and moved to an unknown land because God told him to. As they explore the new territory they face the excitement, fears, and blessings of walking by faith.

    Perfect for Sunday school classes, Bible studies, and independent study, Abraham—God's Brave Explorer teaches young kids all about listening to God and trusting His guidance even when the path gets bumpy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvest House Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9780736935432
    Abraham--God's Brave Explorer
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    Kay Arthur

    Kay Arthur is a four-time Gold Medallion award-winning author, member of NRB Hall of Fame, and beloved international Bible teacher. She and her husband, Jack, cofounded Precept Ministries International to teach people how to discover truth through inductive study. Precept provides teaching and training through study books, TV and radio programs, the Internet, and conferences in over 180 countries and 70 languages.

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      The Bible Study portion of this book is excellent. The story of the Oregon Trail journey that went along with it irritated my 9YO and 11YO girls, so we skipped those sections. My girls also took exception to the authors' overuse of the words awesome. Sentences like "Wasn't it awesome to see our brave explorer believe God's promises and have it reckoned to him as righteousness?" were included practically daily. [The lessons are broken up daily.] Other adjectives would have been better because the redundancy lost my readers. This is the second book in this series we've done, and we had the same problems with the first one. My bottom line: the Bible Study portions are excellent, everything else is ridiculous. If we do any more inductive study from Kay Arthur, we'll be doing adult studies and not the kid version.

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    Abraham--God's Brave Explorer - Kay Arthur

    ABRAHAM—

    GOD’S BRAVE

    EXPLORER

    GENESIS 11-25

    KAY ARTHUR

    JANNA ARNDT

    HARVEST HOUSE™ PUBLISHERS

    EUGENE, OREGON

    All Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible®, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

    Cover & interior illustrations by Steve Bjorkman Studio, Irvine, CA

    Cover by Left Coast Design, Portland, Oregon

    DISCOVER 4 YOURSELF is a registered trademark of The Hawkins Children’s LLC. Harvest House Publishers, Inc. is the exclusive licensee of the trademark, DISCOVER 4 YOURSELF.

    Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids

    ABRAHAM—GOD’S BRAVE EXPLORER

    Copyright © 2003 by Precept Ministries International

    Published by Harvest House Publishers

    Eugene, Oregon 97402

    www.harvesthousepublishers.com

    ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-0936-5

    ISBN-10: 0-7369-0936-2

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

    Printed in the United States of America

    08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 / ML-KB / 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4

    For my precious husband, Jerry,

    with loving thanks for all you do!

    Especially for driving 6000 miles so I could experience the Oregon Trail.

    You are a special gift from God, and I am so thankful for you!

    I love you with all my heart.

    Janna

    Song of Solomon 5:16—

    This is my beloved and this is my friend.

    CONTENTS

    Searching for Truth—A Bible Study You Can Do!

    1. Abram’s Brave Adventure

    2. A Blood Covenant

    3. Abram’s New Name

    4. Fire and Brimstone

    5. Abraham Celebrates

    6. Abraham’s Test of Faith

    Puzzle Answers

    Observation Worksheets

    Discover 4 Yourself!®

    Books in the New Inductive Study Series

    About the Authors

    SEARCHING FOR TRUTH—A BIBLE STUDY YOU CAN DO!

    Hey! Guess what? Molly, Sam (the great detective beagle), and I are heading out West to follow the Oregon Trail. Doesn’t that sound exciting? By the way, my name is Max, and we want you to join us in an exciting adventure in God’s Word as we travel across the hot, dusty wilderness and discover one of God’s brave explorers—a man named Abram.

    Did you know that the pioneers who followed the Oregon Trail left behind their homes, country, and families to begin a new life in a land that they had never seen in the hope of having a better life? WHAT about Abram? WHO is this brave explorer? WHY did he leave his home and journey to a land he didn’t know? WHY did God change his name from Abram to Abraham? And WHAT did he do to have a life full of blessings and to be called God’s friend? Isn’t that awesome to think that God would call you His friend?

    You have so much to discover about Abraham as you study God’s map, the Bible—the source of all truth—and ask God’s Spirit to lead and guide you. You also have this book, which is an inductive Bible study.

    That word inductive means you go straight to the Bible yourself to investigate the life of Abraham in the Book of Genesis and discover what it means, instead of depending on what someone else says it means.

    So pack up your gear, and don’t forget God’s map! Let’s begin our westward trek over rugged terrain to discover what it means to walk by faith and become God’s friend. Westward ho! Let’s go!

    THINGS YOU’LL NEED

    NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE

    (UPDATED EDITION)—OR, PREFERABLY, THE

    NEW INDUCTIVE STUDY BIBLE (NISB)

    PEN OR PENCIL

    COLORED PENCILS

    INDEX CARDS

    A DICTIONARY

    THIS WORKBOOK

    1

    ABRAM’S BRAVE ADVENTURE

    GENESIS 11–14

    "All right! The SUV is packed and ready to go. Uh-oh, where’s Sam? Sam, where are you? Come on, boy, we’re ready to go. Watch out—here he comes! Quick! Move out of the way! Whew—just in time. Sam, settle down, boy. You almost ran over Molly.

    Okay, let’s pile in the SUV and hit the road. Our first stop is St. Louis, Missouri, where many of the pioneers arrived from their homes to get ready for the adventure of their life. So pull out God’s map—the Bible—and as we head west for our big adventure, let’s find out about God’s brave explorer. WHO is Abram and WHY did he leave his home? Was it for the spirit of adventure or a better life, like it was for some of our pioneers? Let’s open God’s map to find out.

    FOLLOWING GOD’S BRAVE EXPLORER

    We are on our way. As you open God’s map to discover WHO Abram is, WHAT is the first thing you need to do? Do you know? You’ve got it! Pray. Bible study should always begin with prayer.

    We need God to be our Wagon Master as we begin our journey on the Oregon Trail. The wagon master was in charge of the entire wagon train. He made all the decisions about whether to go on or stop. He also decided which trail they should take. His word was law!

    Just like the wagon master took care of the pioneers on their journey, we need God to direct us and teach us by His Spirit as we begin our journey in His Word, so that we can understand what He says and make sure we handle His Word accurately. Let’s pray, and then we can start reading God’s map.

    Heavenly Father, we praise You for being our Shepherd who leads us as we study Your Word. Open our eyes so that we can see truth as we study Abram’s life. Open our hearts so that we can understand what Your Word means. Help us to apply all that we learn to our lives so that we can be more like Jesus. We want to please You. We love You and ask these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

    Abram’s life begins in the Book of Genesis, which is known as the book of beginnings. So as we start our research on our brave explorer, we need to put ourselves in context by reviewing the Book of Genesis.

    WHAT is context? Context is the setting in which something is found. This is very important in Bible study. Context is a combination of two words: con, which means with, and text, which means what is written. So when you look for context in the Bible, you look at the verses and chapters surrounding the passage you are studying, such as looking at the whole Book of Genesis, as well as seeing how the passage fits into the whole Bible.

    Context also includes:

    The place something happens. (This is geographical context, such as knowing where Abram lived. Did he live in the land of Canaan or in the United States?)

    The time in history an event happens. (This is historical context, such as, did Abram live before Noah and the flood or after the flood?)

    The customs of a group of people. (This is cultural context. For instance, did Abram live in a tent or in a house like we do today?)

    If you have already studied Genesis Part One, God’s Amazing Creation, and Genesis Part Two, Digging Up the Past, then you have discovered for yourself that Genesis is a book of generations. A generation is what is brought into being. It shows where something or someone came from. A generation shows the order of birth, the family history.

    In Genesis 2:4 we see the generations of the heavens and the earth. In Genesis 5:1 we see the generations of Adam. We see Noah’s generations in Genesis 6:9; Shem, Ham, and Japheth’s generations in Genesis 10:1; and Shem’s generations in Genesis 11:10. WHERE does Abram fit into these generations? Let’s find out.

    Turn to your Observation Worksheets on page 157. Observation Worksheets are pages that have the Bible text printed out for you to use as you do your research on the life of Abram.

    Now read Genesis 11:24-32 and mark every reference to Abram in a special way by coloring Abram blue, along with any pronouns that also refer to Abram. WHAT are pronouns? Check out Max and Molly’s map below.

    PRONOUNS

    Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. A noun is a person, place, or thing. A pronoun stands in for a noun! Here’s an example: Molly and Max are heading west to travel the Oregon Trail. They will have to drive about 3000 miles from their home to get to the end of the trail. The word they is a pronoun because it takes the place of Molly’s and Max’s names in the second sentence. It is another word we use to refer to Molly and Max.

    Watch for these other pronouns when you are marking people:

    Now that you have marked Abram, go back and mark one of the key phrases in the Book of Genesis, "these are the generations of," by putting a blue box around this key phrase.

    Great! Now let’s ask some questions. An explorer always gets the facts by asking lots of questions before he or she begins a journey.

    Let’s see WHAT we can learn about Abram and his family by asking the 5 W’s and an H questions. What are the 5 W’s and an H? They are the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW questions.

    1. Asking WHO helps you find out:

    WHO wrote this?

    WHOM are we reading about?

    To WHOM was it written?

    WHO said this or did that?

    2. WHAT helps you understand:

    WHAT is the author talking about?

    WHAT are the main things that happen?

    3. WHERE helps you learn:

    WHERE did something happen?

    WHERE did they go?

    WHERE was this said?

    When we discover a WHERE, we double-underline the WHERE

    in green.

    WHEN tells us:

    WHEN did this event happen or WHEN will it happen?

    WHEN did the main characters do something? It helps us to follow the order of events.

    5. WHY asks questions like:

    WHY did he say that?

    WHY did they go there?

    WHY did this happen?

    6. HOW lets you figure out things like:

    HOW is something to be done?

    HOW did people know something had happened?

    Now get the facts.

    WHOSE generations are these in Genesis 11:27?

    Looking back at Genesis 11:10, we see that Terah came from the generations of Shem. Let’s find out WHO is in Terah’s family tree.

    Genesis 11:27 WHO did Terah become the father of?

    Genesis 11:27 WHO did Haran become the father of?

    Genesis 11:29 WHO was Abram’s wife?

    Genesis 11:30 WHAT do we see about Sarai?

    Genesis 11:31 WHERE did Terah’s family live?

    Genesis 11:31 WHERE did Terah settle his family?

    Genesis 11:32 WHAT happened to Terah in Haran?

    Now go back and read Genesis 11:27-29 again so you can fill in part of Terah’s family tree below. We’ll complete his family tree as we continue our journey in God’s Word.

    Wow! Look at all you have discovered from just

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