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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Back on the flight path – Abraham, my Friend – Part 07
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


