An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
the wartime slogan This wartime slogan has gone through thousands of permutations in the last couple of years. You will find the general idea of the slogan on T-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, fridge magnets. It would be hard to go
Chapter One: Beginnings Known unto God In British War Cemeteries throughout the world you often come across the words ‘Known unto God’ engraved on tombstones. The words were authored by the writer Rudyard Kipling whose own son was killed in World
Righteous Lot? Today we will meditate on the walk of Abraham by contrasting him with his nephew Lot. In writing the above title I was reminded of the story of a funeral. The deceased was a notorious character but the
And he believed in Jehovah… Genesis 15 contains one of the most important verses in the Bible. The verse becomes the basis for a major New Testament doctrine — justification by faith. It is sometimes said that Christianity has Jewish
To serve and to guard 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
I was musing this morning in Isaiah 45 today and came to… “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
the sitting, running, worshipping, standing man All through his pilgrimage Abraham, the Friend of God, has been a praying man. As we enter our next chapter of Genesis we discover how vitally a part of his relationship with God prayer
Beersheba, and the Everlasting God God still cares about Ishmael It’s time for us to rejoin the storyline. Isaac is a toddler, and Ishmael is being removed from the scene. The events of the latter part of Genesis 21 all
Father and Son In our previous meditation I made the statement that from this point in the life of Abraham, the Friend of God, we come to a new aspect of Abraham’s life. We shall begin to see Abraham and
A long history of a moment (With apologies to Stephen Hawking.) Let’s begin by reminding ourselves of the place that this personal covenant between God and Abraham has in the overall revelation of God’s purposes. This is something we need
