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Essentials From time to time in our recounting of Abraham’s pilgrimage we have touched on a passage of Scripture which has had a far-reaching consequence, and we have then followed the stream to its broader sweeps. The famous phrase… And

Be a blessing – Abraham my Friend – Part 08

He is here It is wonderful to consider the way in which God, who measures the cosmos with a single span, is able and willing to focus on a single individual. I sometimes think of it as one of those

Keep calm and don’t panic

the wartime slogan This wartime slogan has gone through thousands of permutations in the last couple of years. You will find the general idea of the slogan on T-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, fridge magnets. It would be hard to go

Known unto God – Abraham, my Friend – Part 03

Chapter One: Beginnings Known unto God In British War Cemeteries throughout the world you often come across the words ‘Known unto God’ engraved on tombstones. The words were authored by the writer Rudyard Kipling whose own son was killed in World

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Righteous Lot? Today we will meditate on the walk of Abraham by contrasting him with his nephew Lot. In writing the above title I was reminded of the story of a funeral. The deceased was a notorious character but the

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And he believed in Jehovah… Genesis 15 contains one of the most important verses in the Bible. The verse becomes the basis for a major New Testament doctrine — justification by faith. It is sometimes said that Christianity has Jewish

Abraham, my Friend 09

Abraham, my Friend 09

To serve and to guard Let’s continue a little on the theme of God’s promise of blessing for and through Abraham. We use it so often don’t we? The word ‘bless’? As a testimony: ‘The Lord blessed the meeting’, ‘I

If we say we have no sin… Part 2

If we move through John Wycliffe’s version of Inductive Bible Study one of our next questions will have to be ‘to whom’ was this said. With some of the epistles this is an easy question to answer as the epistles

The View from the Shordruck… with a sprinkle of nostalgia

I was musing this morning in Isaiah 45 today and came to… “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?