Pressing on.

We’re heading towards 2023. In the late 90s, I purchased the “biblebase.com” domain name. Why .com? Well, in those days it was the obvious choice and many current domain names ending in .net, .org, etc., weren’t available. I had been

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Beware the Midianites In our last devotional, we began to explore some of the implications of the ritual of circumcision and the continuing truths that are implied in the typology. Let’s recap briefly. Circumcision is a picture of ‘no confidence

a call to Renew the Covenant: Countdown – 4 weeks

The First Passover The first of the annual ‘convocations’ was the feast of Passover, or as Leviticus expresses it “Jehovah’s Passover”. It marked the people’s last day in Egypt and the beginning of their freedom. The event is a new

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This is the way you shall bless An excursus is an academic expression. It means a digression in the narrative, a detour. Most preachers use detours in the course of their preaching. Some exceptional preachers can actually start with a

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words” George Orwell.

1984 In George Orwell’s devastating critique of totalitarianism, “1984”, one of the party workers has been given the job of culling the dictionary. The strategy is to make ‘thoughtcrime’ impossible by the removal of words that describe things forbidden by

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Melchizedek; time to sit and eat In our previous devotional we gave an overview of Abraham’s encounter with kings, confederates and a priest. We can take time now to think a little more about his remarkable meeting with that priest,

is there a place for the sparrow?

It is a very obscure verse and seldom preached on but it gives a unique insight into the gracious care of the creator. How lovely are your dwellings, Jehovah of Hosts! My soul longs, and even faints for the courts

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Righteous Abimelech? The Bible tells a highly selective story And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that

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Abraham, my friend. ‘the making of a man of God’ ‘The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A History More than 15 years ago Greg Gordon, the founder of sermonindex.net asked me to write a

a call to Renew the Covenant: Countdown – 5 weeks

So what does that mean? What is a covenant and why do they need to be renewed? It’s a long story… What is a covenant? A covenant is a legally binding agreement between two or more people. Perhaps the covenant