by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 21, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Genesis
Bible Readings for January 21st Genesis 22 | Matthew 21 | Nehemiah 11 | Acts 21 In spite of all the long waiting and the extraordinary faith Abraham had to exercise while waiting for Isaac to come, God tests Abraham’s faith in an even greater way in Genesis 22 by...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 20, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Genesis
Bible Readings for January 20th Genesis 21 | Matthew 20 | Nehemiah 10 | Acts 20 At last, God fulfills his promise to Abraham and to Sarah. Finally, here in Genesis 21, Yahweh visits Sarah, enabling her to conceive, just as he had promised. Despite their old age...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 19, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Genesis
Bible Readings for January 19th Genesis 20 | Matthew 19 | Nehemiah 9 | Acts 19 Genesis 20 is the second time we see Abraham lying about his wife to protect his own safety. A nearly identical story takes place in Genesis 12:10–20, when Abram lied to the pharaoh of...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 18, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Genesis
Bible Readings for January 18th Genesis 19 | Matthew 18 | Nehemiah 8 | Acts 18 Lot is a fascinating example of someone who does not love God’s righteousness but who also does not approve of the world’s wickedness. There is a strange irony in the fact that Lot has...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 17, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Genesis
Bible Readings for January 17th Genesis 18 | Matthew 17 | Nehemiah 7 | Acts 17 Genesis 18 contains a promise of extraordinary hope and of devastating judgment. This passage in some ways marks both the beginning of Abraham’s redemptive, covenant offspring as well as...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 16, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Genesis
Bible Readings for January 16th Genesis 17 | Matthew 16 | Nehemiah 6 | Acts 16 In Genesis 15, Yahweh had cut a covenant with Abram by passing twice through the pieces of the animals who had been torn in two. In this, Yahweh was promising that he would be torn in two...
