How well God must like you— you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats, you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings, you don’t take your seat among the know-it-alls. Instead you thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. Psalm 1:1-2, MSG What delight comes to the one who follows God’s ways!… Read More
Relationships
Yesterday we focused on our relationship with God and dug into the idea that “what we believe about God affects our lives.” Unless we truly believe that God is good all the time, when bad things happen to us, we may struggle and lose our way. As we read through the story of Abram and… Read More
God Repeats His Promise
Scripture: Genesis 12:6-9 6 Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land. 7 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him. 8 He… Read More
Live Life Laughing
What did you get when Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court?A brief case. Sometimes the new media confused Bigfoot with Sasquatch…Yeti never complains Last night I had a dream about mufflers.I work up exhausted. Bacon is 68% fat.What’s the big deal? So am I.
Bible Doodle: Genesis 12:6-7
As I read Genesis 12: 6-7, I imagined Abram and Sarai texting each other. I imagined that Abram texted because he wanted Sarai to have her first emotive reaction when he was not present. And I imagine Sarai trying to figure out what was going on.
More on God’s Call to Abram: Genesis 12:1-6
Character sketches are a tool to help us understand Bible stories more fully, to identify with the people, and to learn from their lives as they walked with God. I am writing out of reformed, Bible-centric, Holy-Spirit-led world and life view, seeing into these stories out of what could be called “my bias.” And I… Read More
God Calls Abram: Genesis 12:1-6
SET THE SCENE Abram entered Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age (2200-1550 BC). Palestine was inhabited in scattered city-states, and was not as densely populated or urbanized as Mesopotamia had been (Abram’s original home). Contemporary records from ancient Palestine are rare, and much of what is known comes from Egyptian texts. Over Abram’s lifetime, contact… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 