An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
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
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
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
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
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’.
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
O the blessednesses… Perhaps you think we are a little preoccupied with this simple phrase: For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. (Rom 4:3 ASV) I hope not. Justification by
‘The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Known unto GodIn British war cemeteries throughout the world, you will often come across the words ‘Known unto God’ engraved on the gravestones. The
The Child of Promise The typology of Isaac does not only relate to the true Son but also to all true sons. Paul the apostle refers to Isaac as a ‘child of promise’: Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are
Person-to-person Let’s gather up some fragments that remain from this account of Abraham’s faith. (New readers to this column should be warned that the ‘fragments which remained’ ultimately proved to be more than the original meal!) In our last devotional,
