by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Victor Lee Austin The first sermon I ever preached was on this passage. It was my seminary CPE summer, at a hospital in Albuquerque, and I had but a few minutes. I began with Abraham as an old man with an old wife, a man who had received a promise from...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Libbie Weber Teaching also inspired by Heidi Esch’s painting Zähl den Staub auf der Erde und die Sterne am Himmel (Genesis 13 + 15) [Count the Dust on the Earth and the Stars in the Sky], 2009 For the image, click HERE. ‘There is not a...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn Concerning Abram leaving his home, there is much we are not told. How did Abram receive this news? Did he seek to have the Lord change his mind (as he did in Genesis 18)? Did he go eagerly? How did Sarah respond when, hearing that...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Lee Nelson “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 The union of man and wife in marriage is not the possession of any one culture. It is instituted by God...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Keith Allen God’s Covenant promises are rooted in the promise of life. God’s Covenant was a gift of life to Abraham, his offspring and to their generations as an everlasting promise. “And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring...
