Archive for April, 2005
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. – Genesis 22:8
Yesterday, I wrote about the great faith that Abraham had to leave his land and travel to the place God showed him. Today, I will write about the even greater [...]
When you read the story of Abraham you see a man of great faith. He moves to a place he does not know because God tells him to do so. He bargins with God to save Sodom and Gamorah even though he should have no standing to bargin with God for anything (of [...]
Abram believed the LORD , and he credited it to him as righteousness. – Genesis 15:6
This is such a simple statement. Abram believe what God said and it was righteous. Our simple act of belief is also a profound act of righteousness. Of course, the opposite of this is also true. [...]
The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you…” – Genesis 12:1
Faith…If we are a Christ-follower we think we have it. We think that if God told us to do something that we would just go and do it. [...]
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered [...]
A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom.
1 O LORD , how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! 2 Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” [...]
“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” � Genesis 3:5
If you read anything I have written on this blog, you soon realize that I believe God�s greatest gift to us was our free will to follow him or [...]
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. – Genesis 1:1
These ten simple words, the very first words of the Bible say so much about our case for faith. God is the creator of all. As creator he set everything in motion and proves himself to be the only one who is worth [...]
He said to me: �It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will [...]
After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his [...]
