An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
To serve and to guard 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
If we move through John Wycliffe’s version of Inductive Bible Study one of our next questions will have to be ‘to whom’ was this said. With some of the epistles this is an easy question to answer as the epistles
I was musing this morning in Isaiah 45 today and came to… “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
the sitting, running, worshipping, standing man All through his pilgrimage Abraham, the Friend of God, has been a praying man. As we enter our next chapter of Genesis we discover how vitally a part of his relationship with God prayer
Beersheba, and the Everlasting God God still cares about Ishmael It’s time for us to rejoin the storyline. Isaac is a toddler, and Ishmael is being removed from the scene. The events of the latter part of Genesis 21 all
Father and Son In our previous meditation I made the statement that from this point in the life of Abraham, the Friend of God, we come to a new aspect of Abraham’s life. We shall begin to see Abraham and
A long history of a moment (With apologies to Stephen Hawking.) Let’s begin by reminding ourselves of the place that this personal covenant between God and Abraham has in the overall revelation of God’s purposes. This is something we need
Justice divine is satisfied How can God, at one and the same time, be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus? (Rom 3:26 KJV) That was the question we left hanging in the air in the previous
Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy… . (Rom 15:8–9 NKJV)
Why circumcision? I promised I would return to the account of the birth of Ishmael but I have been somewhat reluctant to start on this devotional, simply because of the propriety of the topic. In many ways, the Bible is
