Known unto God – Abraham, my Friend – Part 03

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

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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

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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

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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

The View from the Shordruck… with a sprinkle of nostalgia

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?

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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