An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
15.Still calling…Calling upon the Lord: the crisis Let’s linger a while on this theme of calling on the name of the Lord. Do you call on the name of the Lord? Notice, I didn’t ask ‘did you’ but ‘do you’.
Calling upon the Name So Abraham, ever moving on, pitched his tent in between Bethel and Ai and built an altar to Jehovah, and ‘called upon the name of Jehovah’ (Genesis 12:8 ASV). Let’s not try to fit this into
O the blessednesses… Perhaps you think we are a little preoccupied with this simple phrase: For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. (Rom 4:3 ASV) I hope not. Justification by
The Child of Promise The typology of Isaac does not only relate to the true Son but also to all true sons. Paul the apostle refers to Isaac as a ‘child of promise’: Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are
Person-to-person Let’s gather up some fragments that remain from this account of Abraham’s faith. (New readers to this column should be warned that the ‘fragments which remained’ ultimately proved to be more than the original meal!) In our last devotional,
Ready, steady, wait It is amazing to see how often exhilarating mountain-top experiences are followed by the testings in the valley. Paradise and Adam’s receiving of his wife is followed by his testing by Satan. David’s final conquest of his
