During the winter months of 2013-2014 we began a Bible Study project as part of our biblebase online bible school; we called the series the ‘Romans Project’. The project was designed to cover at least three winter sessions. The sessions included
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The essence of the blessing I’m still thinking about The Blessing. I have been trying to define blessing by subtraction. In other words, what is the essence of blessing? This is how I have been thinking. I am blessed; what
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Shechem Time to move on, I think. It is one thing to come out, but quite another to enter in. Later in Israel’s history, there was a whole generation that came ‘out’ but never entered ‘in’. God’s intention is always
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Rebekah arose… and followed the man The prodigal ‘arose and came to his father’; Rebekah arises and ‘follows the man’ whose responsibility is much like the burden Paul expressed for the church of Corinth: For I am jealous for you
Back on the flight path – Abraham, my Friend – Part 07
Chapter Two: The Blessing second blessings? It is time now to examine the Blessing. Thus far we have identified Abraham as an ordinary man who became an extraordinary man. He was born into no special family and had no special
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The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Thy prayer was heard The story of Abraham’s family begins with a little list of sons and daughters which comes to an abrupt stop:
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Moriah, both of them together Abraham sojourned in the Abimelech’s territory for many days; this almost certainly means several years. The next dateable event will be the death of Sarah when we know Isaac must have been around 37 years
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Beware the Bildads Let’s take a little time to meditate further on this issue of God’s justice, which, as we saw in our last devotional, he involved Abraham in. Theodicy Theodicy is the defense of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God
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Shall I hide from Abraham… We come now to a key passage which was in my mind when we first began this journey. It seems that the primary purpose of the visit to Abraham’s tent was Sarah’s annunciation — the
Resting your imagination on God
The original version of My Utmost for His Highest daily thoughts reads… Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (RV margin). The updated version has… You will keep him in perfect peace,


