An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
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:
Moriah, both of them together Abraham sojourned in the Abimelech’s territory for many days; this almost certainly means several years. The next dateable event will be the death of Sarah when we know Isaac must have been around 37 years
Beware the Bildads Let’s take a little time to meditate further on this issue of God’s justice, which, as we saw in our last devotional, he involved Abraham in. Theodicy Theodicy is the defense of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God
Shall I hide from Abraham… We come now to a key passage which was in my mind when we first began this journey. It seems that the primary purpose of the visit to Abraham’s tent was Sarah’s annunciation — the
The original version of My Utmost for His Highest daily thoughts reads… Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (RV margin). The updated version has… You will keep him in perfect peace,
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
God is able In the ‘National Gallery of the Heroes of Faith,’ there is just one portrait that appears twice — Abraham. Hebrews 11 twice focuses on this extraordinary man as a God-given illustration of faith. First, the writer tells
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
When Lot left, Jehovah said… I hope we are not going too slowly for you. It has taken us three months to cover two chapters; however, I see this is assisting our goal rather than hindering it. One of the
