An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
I read a newspaper story of a Bible that brought together two families from opposite ends of the world after 75 years. Here’s my ‘miracle bible’ story… I watched a ‘sequel’ to Chariots of Fire, entitled On Eagles’ Wings, recently.
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
O the blessednesses… Perhaps you think we are a little preoccupied with this simple phrase: For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. (Rom 4:3 ASV) I hope not. Justification by
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
I am an accidental Arminian. By that I mean I have not ‘signed up’ to Arminius’ theology but as I discover it I find a fellow traveller. For some time I have been convinced that the main thrust of the
Convocations, they used to call them. A Trumpet blast, rallying call to the whole nation to assemble together in submission to God and his will. Old Israel had lots of them; their weekly convocation was the Sabbath, but their annual
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
‘The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Known unto GodIn British war cemeteries throughout the world, you will often come across the words ‘Known unto God’ engraved on the gravestones. The
