Week 2

GENESIS 12:1-9

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2 “I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.”[b]

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abramand said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord,who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

SYNOPSIS

• God instructs Abram to leave his country, people, and father's household
• God promises to make Abram the leader of nations
• God promises Abram and Sarai a child
• Abram leaves with Sarai and his nephew Lot

TALKING POINTS

• How does God talk to you? How do you hear Him?
• If God gave you a picture of your life, you would become complacent
• Why build an altar?
• bread crumb trail
• create memorials
• Why go?
• Perhaps Abram wanted to matter
• Why not?
• Live a life without regret
• What or how is not important

MUFFIN OF THE WEEK

BANANA NUTELLA

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4 over-ripe bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• Nutella

Directions

Preheat over to 350F. Prepare muffin tin with paper liners and grease. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in bowl. Whisk. In separate bowl, combine bananas, sugars, egg, oil, and vanilla. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet ingredient. Using an ice cream scoop, fill tins 3/4 full. Top each muffin with a teaspoon of Nutella. Swirl Nutella into better using a toothpick. Bake muffins for 17 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.