Genesis 12:3
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Eleven Points on How to Be Hidden through Impending Judgment 7 months ago · View
Perhaps the Book of the Prophet Zephaniah is skipped over by some who would rather not hear its proclamations of judgment: judgment on Judah (Zeph 1); judgment on the Gentile nations (Zeph 2:4-15); judgement on Jerusalem (Zeph 3:1-7); judgment on the nations: “All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy.” (Zeph [...]
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owenjohn wrote a new blog post: Propaganda? 3 years, 6 months ago · View
If I set out to write a holy book, would I include a passage like this one? Probably not. Some claim that Christians have changed, diluted, or otherwise meddled with scripture but after seeing such passages I’m encouraged. Wouldn’t the Jews, a nation later enslaved by the pharaohs, paint Pharaoh in a worse light? Wouldn’t [...]
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Hannah Venable wrote a new blog post: The Sons of Abraham 3 years, 6 months ago · View
Here we read about the call of Abraham and the beginning of the Abrahamic covenant (that is more officially made in Genesis 17). As followers of Christ, we are also part of this covenant. We are children of Abraham. We are told this many times in the New Testament. Romans 4:16 is one of the [...]
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johncatmur wrote a new blog post: Lies, doubt and power 3 years, 6 months ago · View
This passage is intriguing to me. We traditionally hold up Abraham as ‘the man of faith’ – and he was. But the man of faith got to that place only after a long journey of growth. Here are the beginning of his story we see a weaker Abram who bails out of the land when [...]
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natalie wrote a new blog post: Noah’s Ark 3 years, 7 months ago · View
I was reading Genesis 6-8 the other day – the story of Noah’s ark – and I thought, wow, Noah was one faithful man. How much did he have to trust God? A whole lot. He had to trust that God was going to actually send the rain . Think about it, they are in a desert. [...]