Exposition

Will you go with this man? It is wonderful how clearly characters are captured in just a few words in this story. We see the mercenary streak in Rebekah’s brother Laban: And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was

God loved Sodom We know this passage so well, perhaps too well. It is an amazing record of Abraham’s relationship with the God who referred to him as Abraham, My Friend. I want to challenge some assumptions about these verses.

The Seed – Part 1 As I promised we will now return to the narrative of Genesis 15. There is so much material in this chapter that it is easy to forget that the incidents it records all took place

A bride for the son So we arrive at Genesis 24. It is a long chapter, more than twice the length of most others we have read together. If we were justified in asking why the Bible gave a whole

By faith Sarah… Our devotionals have been focussed on Abraham, but perhaps just for a moment, we can consider Sarah. Abraham is waiting on his guests and, as he waits, the confirmation comes. I say confirmation rather than revelation, because

A Covenant with Abraham I have opted for the title above very consciously. We often speak of the Abrahamic Covenant but this covenant was very narrow in its inception. And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared

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,