An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
Beware the Midianites In our last devotional, we began to explore some of the implications of the ritual of circumcision and the continuing truths that are implied in the typology. Let’s recap briefly. Circumcision is a picture of ‘no confidence
1984 In George Orwell’s devastating critique of totalitarianism, “1984”, one of the party workers has been given the job of culling the dictionary. The strategy is to make ‘thoughtcrime’ impossible by the removal of words that describe things forbidden by
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,
It is a very obscure verse and seldom preached on but it gives a unique insight into the gracious care of the creator. How lovely are your dwellings, Jehovah of Hosts! My soul longs, and even faints for the courts
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
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
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
