An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
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
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
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
Chapter One: Beginnings unsatisfied hungers The story of Abraham’s family begins with a little list of sons and daughters which comes to an abrupt stop; “but Sarai was barren she had no child”. Perhaps it’s something to do with the
God is able In the ‘National Gallery of the Heroes of Faith,’ there is just one portrait that appears twice — Abraham. Hebrews 11 twice focuses on this extraordinary man as a God-given illustration of faith. First, the writer tells
When Lot left, Jehovah said… I hope we are not going too slowly for you. It has taken us three months to cover two chapters; however, I see this is assisting our goal rather than hindering it. One of the
Famine in the land. ‘And there was a famine in the land’ (Gen 12:10 ASV). It’s one thing to progress when everything is going well, but what happens when the trials come? And come they will. Often they come in
A nose jewel and two bracelets We are watching the unfolding of events pertaining to the father’s son; Isaac. If we continue with our analogy of The Father, Son and Holy Executive we see interesting patterns in this account. We
They that wait upon the Lord And then after the sitting, running, lying, and working comes the standing — the posture of a servant, you will recall from our last devotional. As we read Genesis 18 slowly we get a definite
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
