An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
This is the way you shall bless An excursus is an academic expression. It means a digression in the narrative, a detour. Most preachers use detours in the course of their preaching. Some exceptional preachers can actually start with a
So what does that mean? What is a covenant and why do they need to be renewed? It’s a long story… What is a covenant? A covenant is a legally binding agreement between two or more people. Perhaps the covenant
During the winter months of 2013-2014 we began a Bible Study project as part of our biblebase online bible school; we called the series the ‘Romans Project’. The project was designed to cover at least three winter sessions. The sessions included
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
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
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
The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Thy prayer was heard The story of Abraham’s family begins with a little list of sons and daughters which comes to an abrupt stop:
Chapter One: Beginnings unsatisfied hungers The story of Abraham’s family begins with a little list of sons and daughters which comes to an abrupt stop; “but Sarai was barren she had no child”. Perhaps it’s something to do with the
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
Famine in the land. ‘And there was a famine in the land’ (Gen 12:10 ASV). It’s one thing to progress when everything is going well, but what happens when the trials come? And come they will. Often they come in
