A man once had a large flock of sheep - 100 in all. One day he was busy counting them and realised he had one misssing. He counted them again just to make sure, ninety eight, ninety nine! No he was definately one missing.
The shepherd was frantic with worry, he searched all over the hillside [...]
Two men were busy building house’s for themselves. The first man choose ground which was rock and very solid. It was not easy he had to dig very deep to put in the foundations, it was hard work. When he had finished the whole house was well made and solid.
The man moved in and closed his front [...]
For many years the Children of Israel had been ruled by the Midianites. One day as Gideon was working on his father’s farm an angel came to him and said, “The Lord is with you and He will help you defeat the Midianites.” Gideon selected an army of 300 men. They planned to trick the [...]
After Isacc and Rebekah married, they had a son and they called him Jacob. When Jacob got married he had twelve sons but of them all Joseph was his favourite. He even made him a special coat, so beautiful and it was made up of many colours. However, Joseph’s brothers were very angry and jealous that he [...]
Abraham was growing old, and before he died he wanted to find the right wife for his son Isaac. So he sent a trusted servant back to the place where he had come from. Abraham believed God would help his servant find a wife for Issac.
When the servant came to town, he went to its [...]
I do not think that Adam and Eve wandered near to the sacred Tree of Life often. But the Tree of Knowledge was in a more open space. One day, Eve was in the garden when she heard a rustle near the tree, and presently, among the waving bushes, she saw the head of a [...]
Among other tales, the mothers tried to tell the children the story of how God made the world. They said it was made in six wonderful days – what we call the Creation. Every day, they explained, for six days running, God made something beautiful and new. First of all was Light. And then He [...]
In the beginning God created a beautiful garden. This garden was in a strange, hot country, where you sometimes find miles and miles of wind-tossed sand, and sometimes high, rocky mountains and sometimes wide rivers that flowed between banks of tall reeds. Part of this land was called “The Land of Wandering”. In this country [...]
Abraham was a good man and God choose him for a special plan. He promised Abraham He would make a great nation from his family.
Then God gave a son to Abraham and his wife, Sarah. They named him Isaac. One day God called to Abraham, “Abraham, take Isaac your only son whom you love so [...]
As time passed, God looked at the workd He had made and saw that people were cruel and selfish. There was only one good man called Noah who loved God. One day God said to Noah, “I am going to start again. I will flood the earth with water and destroy every living creature. But [...]