13 Sections suggest a variety of ways to tell your ancestor stories; each section has a Planning Worksheet to assist you in doing it most effectively. The content of our telling of ancestor stories includes your life as well as the lives of your two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great grandparents, etc., and their sibling, aunts, uncles and cousins. Ancestor stories include the social context in which these folks lived, their clothes, their farms or ranches, their religion (or not), their occupations, their loves and antagonisms, their education (or not), their friends and neighbors, and the mundane details of their daily lives. Preservation and interpretation of your ancestor stories will occur most effectively if each of us use multiple approaches to telling our ancestor stories to our families and interested others. This is the purpose of this book.

These lessons help young readers increase their vocabulary of Bible words, believe that the Bible is God's Word, use Bible references to find Bible verses, and celebrate their new knowledge. A 52-Week Bible Journey–Just for Kids!Route 52™ is a Bible-based journey that will take kids through the Bible every year from age 6 to 8. Every lesson features: Scripturally sound themes Culturally relevant, hands-on activities Age-appropriate Bible-learning challenge Reproducible life-application activity pages Route 52™ Bible lessons will help kids learn the Bible and how to apply it to their lives at their own level of spiritual development. These reproducible Bible lessons are appropriate for Bible school, children's church, youth group, kids club, and midweek Bible study programs.

Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.

Konrad Schmid is a Swiss biblical scholar who belongs to a larger group of Continental researchers proposing new directions in the study of the Pentateuch. In this volume, a translation of his Erzväter und Exodus, Schmid argues that the ancestor tradition in Genesis and the Moses story in Exodus were two competing traditions of Israel’s origins and were not combined until the time of the Priestly Code—that is, the early Persian period. Schmid interacts with the long tradition of European scholarship on the Hebrew Bible but departs from some of the main tenets of the Documentary Hypothesis: he argues that the pre-Priestly material in both text blocks is literarily and theologically so divergent that their present linkage is more appropriately interpreted as the result of a secondary redaction than as thematic variation stemming from J’s oral prehistory. He dates Genesis–2 Kings to the Persian period and considers it a redactional work that, in its present shape, is a historical introduction to the message of future hope presented in the prophetic corpus of Isaiah-Malachi. Scholars and students alike will be pleased that this translation makes Schmid’s important work readily available in English, both for the contributions made by Schmid and the summary of continental interpretation that he presents. In this edition, some passages have been expanded or modified in order to clarify issues or to engage with more-recent scholarship. The notes and bibliography have also been updated. Dr. Schmid is Professor of Old Testament and Early Judaism at the University of Zürich.

What could a girl who has lived a “charmed life” possibly have to tell the world? She doesn’t really have a story, right? Carrie Lightfoot Shappell is fully aware that even in this “charmed life” she would have nothing without God’s love, His sacrifice, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Psalms 96:3, David tells us to, “Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.” So, what does that mean? As Christians, we all have a story that we can share! Sometimes we forget this truth and we fail to see that God meets us exactly where we are. We miss out on opportunities to tell His good news, no matter where we are or what we have/haven’t experienced. We all have a purpose! We just need to believe this and be willing to slow down, in order to embrace and live out His plan. Throughout the past 40 years, God has given Carrie insightful perspectives in life’s successes and in life’s challenges/failures. God is not finished yet. Carrie has opened her heart to His calling, and He has commissioned her to share with the world what she has learned so far. We all have a ministry, and we can live it every single day. It doesn’t have to be a ministry within the church because we are given opportunities to be His hands and feet in our schools, our workplaces, and our communities. God has given us gifts to use in order to help others know His love and to help build His kingdom here on Earth. Our gift back is being “all in” for God and using those gifts to glorify Him. In What’s Your Ministry: 13 Ways to Be “All In”, Carrie guides her readers through parts of her personal journey to share what God has shown her throughout life. At the same time, she challenges readers to be “all in” for God. This book, which intertwines a real- life story of finding her ministry with 13 steps to being “all in,” provides readers with the following: Examples of scripture Practical ways to live intentionally for God Activities for reflection Are you “all in?” What’s your ministry?