My son Sam, his son, my grandson Isaac, and I went elk hunting this last week in Eastern Oregon. We had all drawn cow elk tags, and were hoping that we could get at least one elk between us, but we all were able to shoot an elk, that doesn’t happen very often to me. My pickup looked cool with three elk in the back of it as we drove home. We just about got them all in the freezer today, though it is going to take multiple freezers to hold all the meat. Part of the problem is that I brought home a hundred pounds of fish from Alaska and 50 lbs of caribou from Alaska as well.

I grew up hunting with my Dad and my boys were hunting with me about as soon as they could walk. It is one of my favorite activities, especially with family.

One of the best things about hunting with friends and family are the stories that come out of each of the hunts, we can spend hours telling stories of all the previous hunts that we have all been on, and even though we have heard some of them dozens of times they are still fun to tell and listen to. Stories are a very powerful way to maintain unity in a family or a group of friends.

Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament and much of what he wrote about happened many years before he was even born, so how did he know what to write? Stories that were told over and over and passed down from generation to generation. Sometimes stories go crazy wild in the retelling of them , but other times they maintain a very strict and tight adherence to the original. With the Holy Spirit working in peoples minds and hearts it would have been an easy thing to bring the truth of what happened in human history down through the years until Moses wrote it in the Bible for us to read today.

The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God. He worked in the minds and hearts of men as they wrote history, wisdom, principles, and truth so that we would have everything we needed in the way of knowledge to live our lives successfully and to know God intimately.

The main thing is that we read it faithfully, daily is best, and that we live by the principles and truth that is in it.