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God Heard Her Cry: God and Hagar in Genesis 16
God uses weak and fallible people—the only kind of people there are. Both Sarah, from the Middle East, and Hagar,...
Abram’s Faith Grew Brick by Brick
We rightly think of Abraham as our ancestor in faith, but his faith began small, just like ours. The faith...
Saving a Lot: Abraham Fights Slave Traders
While Christian theologians today debate whether God demands pacifism or allows just war, at least in the Old Testament we...
God Preserves His Promise
In obedience to God’s call, Abram journeyed to Canaan (Gen 12:4). Genesis names some of the places where Abram journeyed...
God’s Promise to Abram
In Genesis 12:2–3, God offers Abram a twofold promise: a land and a seed. These motifs dominate much of the...
The Call to Go in Faith
God calls Abram to leave behind everything familiar to him from his past—his country, his relatives, and all that he...
God’s Towering Authority
What does Genesis 10:25 mean when it says that Peleg was so named because in his day the earth (ha-aretz)...
Why would God Judge? Reflections on Genesis 6-9
People write about the biblical account of the Flood from different angles (even Noah – the latest movie on the...
Who Really Speaks for God? Reflections on 1 Thessalonians 5:21
Spiritual gifts are for today, but not everything everyone claims to be from the Spirit really is. Paul closes his...
Building on the Rock: Reflections on Matthew 16:13-27
When Jesus knows that his disciples understand enough, he asks them about his identity. The setting is significant: Caesarea Philippi...
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