An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
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
Essentials From time to time in our recounting of Abraham’s pilgrimage we have touched on a passage of Scripture which has had a far-reaching consequence, and we have then followed the stream to its broader sweeps. The famous phrase… And
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
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
