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…
Oops. I don’t think that’s what he meant. Funny how one letter can completely change the message. At least I think it’s funny. “Please leave a massage after the beep.”
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…
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…
