We continue our journey through the book of Genesis . We know already that for thirteen years, Ishmael had been Abraham’s only son—the son Abraham loved, prayed for, and expected to become his heir. Then, finally, the impossible happened: the child whom God had promised for so many years was born to Sarah, and Abraham […]
Dear friends, In our last post, we left Abraham standing before the Lord, “dust and ashes” daring to plead for Sodom and appealing to the righteousness of the Judge of all the earth; this week, the story moves into the terrible morning after that conversation, when Abraham returns to the very place where he had […]
There are passages in Scripture that we know so well that sometimes we no longer notice how astonishing they really are. For me, Abraham’s conversation with God before the destruction of Sodom is certainly one of them. We remember the famous numbers—fifty, forty-five, forty, thirty, twenty, ten—and we remember Abraham’s question, “Shall not the Judge […]
There are chapters in the Bible that are so familiar that we almost stop expecting them to surprise us. Genesis 18 is certainly one of them: Abraham sitting at the entrance of his tent, three mysterious visitors appearing before him, the hurried preparation of the meal, Sarah listening from behind the tent door, and finally […]
One of the greatest challenges in reading familiar biblical stories is that we know too much. We know where the story is going long before the biblical characters do; we know who will be born, who will inherit the promise, who will become the central figure of the next chapter, and because we know the […]
When we think of Genesis 15, our minds almost instinctively travel to the stars. We picture Abraham standing beneath the magnificent Canaanite sky while God tells him to look toward heaven and count the stars, if he is able, before making one of the most breathtaking promises in the entire Bible: “So shall your descendants […]
Genesis chapters 13 and 14 are so clearly marked by the name of Lot that we cannot simply pass them by without saying a word about him. Before we continue following Abraham’s journey, I think we need to pause for a moment and try to understand his relationship with his young nephew. It is […]
In my previous post, I wrote: We choose our destiny by the way we respond to God’s call. Terah heard the call and began the journey, but he stopped halfway. Abraham heard the same call, left everything behind, and continued the journey to its end. But every time I read this story, I find myself […]
GOD NEVER SAYS “OOPS” As we continue our journey through Genesis, we now arrive at the story of Abraham—the story of my people. Yet before Abraham appears, Scripture first takes us through something else entirely. Before the call of Abraham, before the covenant, before the promises and the blessing, we are invited to watch the […]
My dear readers, I believe we would all agree that Noah’s Ark stands at the very heart of Noah’s story. And precisely because of that, the Ark itself becomes God’s prophetic message to future generations. In earlier times, people would sometimes throw a bottle containing a message into the sea, not knowing when, where, or […]
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