by | Feb 18, 2013 | Bible, Theology
John Sailhamer: The theme of Abraham and his descendants marking a new beginning in God’s plan of blessing is developed in a number of other ways as well in Genesis. Most notable is the frequent reiteration of God’s “blessing” in 1:28 (and 9:1)...
by | Feb 18, 2013 | Bible, Church, Preaching
Post Series on Genesis 12:1-9: The Missionary Calling of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3) The Missionary Obedience of Abraham (Genesis 12:4-6) The Missionary Witness of Abraham (Genesis 12:7-9) The Fallen (and Falling) Human Race After Adam and Eve fell into sin in Genesis 3,...
by | Feb 28, 2011 | Bible
Post Series on 1 John 2:15-27: John’s Warning Concerning the World (1 John 2:15-17) John’s Warning Concerning the Church (1 John 2:18-27) The Anointing of the Holy One (1 John 2:18-27) The reasons we sin are neither complicated nor new. John summarizes and...
by | Jan 31, 2011 | Bible, Church, Preaching, Theology
Isaac, Jacob, and Moses all find their wives through interactions at a well. The parallels are fascinating: So that Isaac does not marry one of “the daughters of the Canaanites, (Gen. 24:3), Abraham sends out his servant to find Isaac a wife, and the servant...
by | Sep 13, 2010 | Bible
In Gen. 34, we read that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, are alone capable of slaughtering an entire city of freshly-circumcised Hivite men “when they were sore” (Gen. 34:25) to avenge their sister Dinah, who had been raped by a prince of the...