An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
Chapter One: Beginnings Looking forward to The City “A journey of a thousand miles,” say the Chinese, “begins with the first step.” The beginning of any venture is vital; if there are mistakes in the foundation it will be very
The Lord bless you Let’s continue a little on the theme of God’s promise of blessing for and through Abraham. We use it so often don’t we? The word ‘bless’? As a testimony; “The Lord blessed the meeting”, “I was
When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have
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
Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and
John the Baptist’s place in history Bible readers are often not sure what to do with John the Baptist. In terms of simple volume he is one of the most important characters in the New Covenant scriptures but is he
And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone
So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. His mother answered and said, “No; he shall be called John.” (Luke 1:59–60
