An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
Abrahamic Perfection I want to say more about Genesis 16 but I think it will make more sense if we revisit later rather than try to look too far ahead. In essence, Ishmael was ‘fathered’ by uncircumcised energy and came
Chapter One: Beginnings In the beginning… Every Christian biography should begin with the words “In the beginning God..” Our Bible begins with these words and, on reflection, it could begin with no others. How else would anything ‘begin’? The gospel
the people of the God of Abraham ‘Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings’, wrote William Cowper, ‘It is the Lord, Who rises with healing in His wings.’ Sometimes the same light surprises the Christian while he reads;
The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Looking forward to The City A journey of a thousand miles say the Chinese, begins with the first step. The beginning of any venture
Chapter One: Beginnings Looking forward to The City “A journey of a thousand miles,” say the Chinese, “begins with the first step.” The beginning of any venture is vital; if there are mistakes in the foundation it will be very
The Lord bless you 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 was
Will you go with this man? It is wonderful how clearly characters are captured in just a few words in this story. We see the mercenary streak in Rebekah’s brother Laban: And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was
So Abraham prayed… and God healed… So… and… spiritual consequences. It is all so wonderfully matter-of-fact. Abraham prayed and God healed. In his dream to Abimelech God had spoken of Abraham in similar matter-of-fact words. He is a prophet, and
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.
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
