So the other part of chapter 17 is Abram‘s name (high/noble father) being changed to Abraham (father of many/multitudes), as well as Sarai’s name (my princess) being changed to Sarah (a princess [of nations]). Have you ever been called by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here we go again; passing the “blame bucket”. Sarai seems to have forgotten very quickly that this was her idea. Probably best that Abram didn’t bring that up though. Abram is starting to look a little more grey there. No[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, I understand that cultures and traditions were different back in those days, but it still seems like they would have at least considered that this was not a very good idea. Perhaps I’m reiterating the post from last week,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sarai has been holding on to the promises made to her husband by God for a long time. Instead of encouraging Abram and urging him in faithfulness to their marriage, she decides to take matters into her own hands to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So in chapter 15 of Genesis, we have the somewhat bizarre and slightly graphic scene of God’s covenant ceremony with Abram. I won’t go into detail, but it involved walking through the mutilated halves of animal sacrifices, chasing away carrion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow! Already to chapter 14 of Genesis. Very exciting. This story is also very exciting. Just when we pegged Abram as a humble nomad/livestock herder, we find that he moonlights as a special ops ninja warrior with a band of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love Abram’s enthusiasm. That, coupled with Moth’s na
We haven’t seen Newt for a while. Looks like his entrepreneurial prospects are ever-increasing. The Genesis 13 account tells us how Abram and his nephew, Lot, had gained so many riches that their herdsmen were quarreling. You know you’ve got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That didn’t last very long. When the Egyptian Pharoh took Abram’s wife, Sarai, into his palace, on the pretense that the two foreigners were siblings, God struck the royal family with some serious diseases. That didn’t sit very well with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t you just love it when someone expects you to make their emergency your priority, especially when that “emergency” is a result of their poor decision making? Has anyone ever asked you to lie for them in order to protect[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
