An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
Melchizedek; time to sit and eat In our previous devotional we gave an overview of Abraham’s encounter with kings, confederates and a priest. We can take time now to think a little more about his remarkable meeting with that priest,
Righteous Abimelech? The Bible tells a highly selective story And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that
Abraham, my friend. ‘the making of a man of God’ ‘The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A History More than 15 years ago Greg Gordon, the founder of sermonindex.net asked me to write a
The essence of the blessing I’m still thinking about The Blessing. I have been trying to define blessing by subtraction. In other words, what is the essence of blessing? This is how I have been thinking. I am blessed; what
Shechem Time to move on, I think. It is one thing to come out, but quite another to enter in. Later in Israel’s history, there was a whole generation that came ‘out’ but never entered ‘in’. God’s intention is always
Rebekah arose… and followed the man The prodigal ‘arose and came to his father’; Rebekah arises and ‘follows the man’ whose responsibility is much like the burden Paul expressed for the church of Corinth: For I am jealous for you
Chapter Two: The Blessing second blessings? It is time now to examine the Blessing. Thus far we have identified Abraham as an ordinary man who became an extraordinary man. He was born into no special family and had no special
The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Thy prayer was heard The story of Abraham’s family begins with a little list of sons and daughters which comes to an abrupt stop:
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
