An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
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
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
Beware the Bildads Let’s take a little time to meditate further on this issue of God’s justice, which, as we saw in our last devotional, he involved Abraham in. Theodicy Theodicy is the defense of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God
Shall I hide from Abraham… We come now to a key passage which was in my mind when we first began this journey. It seems that the primary purpose of the visit to Abraham’s tent was Sarah’s annunciation — the
God is able In the ‘National Gallery of the Heroes of Faith,’ there is just one portrait that appears twice — Abraham. Hebrews 11 twice focuses on this extraordinary man as a God-given illustration of faith. First, the writer tells
Getting Real There is one more element we need to add to complete the ‘context’ of 1 John. Four hundred years before Christ a Greek philosopher had taught ideas of form and reality. Plato used a famous illustration to make
When Lot left, Jehovah said… I hope we are not going too slowly for you. It has taken us three months to cover two chapters; however, I see this is assisting our goal rather than hindering it. One of the
Preparing for Series Three in our Romans Project I am in the lead-in to our third season of Bible studies in Paul’s epistle to the Romans. We have completed Series One – Introduction and ‘Guilty’ Series Two – ‘From Death
A nose jewel and two bracelets We are watching the unfolding of events pertaining to the father’s son; Isaac. If we continue with our analogy of The Father, Son and Holy Executive we see interesting patterns in this account. We
They that wait upon the Lord And then after the sitting, running, lying, and working comes the standing — the posture of a servant, you will recall from our last devotional. As we read Genesis 18 slowly we get a definite
