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God loved Sodom We know this passage so well, perhaps too well. It is an amazing record of Abraham’s relationship with the God who referred to him as Abraham, My Friend. I want to challenge some assumptions about these verses.

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The Seed – Part 1 As I promised we will now return to the narrative of Genesis 15. There is so much material in this chapter that it is easy to forget that the incidents it records all took place

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A bride for the son So we arrive at Genesis 24. It is a long chapter, more than twice the length of most others we have read together. If we were justified in asking why the Bible gave a whole

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By faith Sarah… Our devotionals have been focussed on Abraham, but perhaps just for a moment, we can consider Sarah. Abraham is waiting on his guests and, as he waits, the confirmation comes. I say confirmation rather than revelation, because

16. The Birth feared by Herod

16. The Birth feared by Herod

 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have

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A Covenant with Abraham I have opted for the title above very consciously. We often speak of the Abrahamic Covenant but this covenant was very narrow in its inception. And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared

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15.Still calling…Calling upon the Lord: the crisis Let’s linger a while on this theme of calling on the name of the Lord. Do you call on the name of the Lord? Notice, I didn’t ask ‘did you’ but ‘do you’.

A ‘miracle’ Bible

I read a newspaper story of a Bible that brought together two families from opposite ends of the world after 75 years. Here’s my ‘miracle bible’ story… I watched a ‘sequel’ to Chariots of Fire, entitled On Eagles’ Wings, recently.

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Calling upon the Name So Abraham, ever moving on, pitched his tent in between Bethel and Ai and built an altar to Jehovah, and ‘called upon the name of Jehovah’ (Genesis 12:8 ASV). Let’s not try to fit this into

14. The Birth announced by Angels

  Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and