I’ll admit, I don’t fully understand the idea of circumcision. I mean, I know what it is, but I don’t really get why God chose…that…to be the sign of the covenant. Regardless, it’s still a very important part of the Old Testament community. So important, in fact, that when Jesus came and the argument raged …
I read an article not too long ago about how fewer women are changing their name when they get married these days. I don’t really have a dog in that fight; when we got married, my wife changed her last name to mine, but I don’t remember it being a discussion, really. Should it be …
I love asking unanswerable questions. Several years ago, in teaching a Bible class based on the life of Solomon, I asked everyone if they thought Solomon was in Heaven. Everyone hem-hawed around the answer — some claimed he wasn’t based on his life, others that he was based on his wisdom. In reality, we have …
If we know anything about prayer, it’s that God’s timeline and ours don’t always match up. Sometimes, we may think that what we ask for in our prayers should be delivered immediately. It’s on our mind, so it should be on God’s too, right? Before you know it, thirty years have passed, and that prayer …
After God’s promises to Abraham in Genesis 15, He then tells him something less exciting. Your ancestors will eventually be slaves. They will be oppressed. They will be burdened. BUT, God says, I will judge their enslavers. And God will eventually bring them back to this land that Abraham is standing on now. They will …
I turned 37 this year, and I already feel age creeping up on me. I know (and pray) I have many more years left on this earth, but I also know that 40 is just around the corner. And with the passing years, the likelihood of some type of tragic disease is just around the …
Of all the verses in Genesis, Genesis 15:6 is one of the most discussed and dissected throughout time. The statement itself is simple: “Abraham believed God, and He credited it to him as righteousness.” There’s a lot in that verse though, that people who look at it in isolation miss. Let’s take it in chunks. …
Sodom and Gomorrah are renowned for their depravity. They were absolutely annihilated for their wickedness in Genesis 19, and talked about as a metaphor throughout the rest of the Bible for what not to do. It may come as a surprise then to learn that they might not, possibly not, could have not always been …
It’s safe to say that I am not an avid outdoorsman. Do I like being outside? Yeah. Do I like seeing the beauty of nature? Yeah. But am I the kind of guy who’s going to hike the Appalachian trail anytime soon? Not unless it comes with a movable tiny home that I can sleep …
When Abraham gave Lot the option to pick whatever land he wanted in order to keep the peace between their two parties, Lot did his research. First, he looked at the land of Canaan. We will eventually know it as the “land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8), but apparently at this point, it …
