An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
‘the head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The making of a man of God. Preface. Every story has a purpose and my re-telling of this story has its purpose revealed in
Particular responsibility and a look at the accounts This week’s devotional is a little more ‘technical’ and a little longer. We are going to see how Paul expounds Abraham’s experience. Please don’t be discouraged by that; these are vital truths
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.’ (Gen 3:15 NKJV) You start at the very beginning. The children have
Wait I say on the Lord Our previous devotional found Abraham ‘waiting upon’ his visitors. His waiting upon God was not ‘in order that’… There was no secret ambition in his service; it was simply the instinct of his life.
We’re heading towards 2023. In the late 90s, I purchased the “biblebase.com” domain name. Why .com? Well, in those days it was the obvious choice and many current domain names ending in .net, .org, etc., weren’t available. I had been
Beware the Midianites In our last devotional, we began to explore some of the implications of the ritual of circumcision and the continuing truths that are implied in the typology. Let’s recap briefly. Circumcision is a picture of ‘no confidence
The First Passover The first of the annual ‘convocations’ was the feast of Passover, or as Leviticus expresses it “Jehovah’s Passover”. It marked the people’s last day in Egypt and the beginning of their freedom. The event is a new
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
1984 In George Orwell’s devastating critique of totalitarianism, “1984”, one of the party workers has been given the job of culling the dictionary. The strategy is to make ‘thoughtcrime’ impossible by the removal of words that describe things forbidden by
Melchizedek; time to sit and eat In our previous devotional we gave an overview of Abraham’s encounter with kings, confederates and a priest. We can take time now to think a little more about his remarkable meeting with that priest,
