Abraham, my friend. ‘the making of a man of God’ ‘The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A History More than 15 years ago Greg Gordon, the founder of sermonindex.net asked me to write a
a call to Renew the Covenant: Countdown – 5 weeks
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
biblebase Romans Project
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
Abraham, my Friend 11

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
Abraham, my Friend 12

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
Abraham, my Friend 62
Rebekah arose… and followed the man The prodigal ‘arose and came to his father’; Rebekah arises and ‘follows the man’ whose responsibility is much like the burden Paul expressed for the church of Corinth: For I am jealous for you
Back on the flight path – Abraham, my Friend – Part 07
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
Abraham, my Friend 06

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:
Abraham, my Friend 56
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
Abraham, my Friend 45
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


