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2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.” Sometimes you protect someone else’s reputation with great tenacity. I see this manyContinue reading “10May2009 Genesis 19:2”

25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Abraham’s proposition to the Lord is simple: since you are the Judge of everyone, exercise yourContinue reading “9May2009 Genesis 18:25”

23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Abraham asks the Lord one of the most fundamental questions in theology: Is God just? This question gets asked today more in the form of an accusation: If there is a God, then why is there all the sufferingContinue reading “8May2009 Genesis 18:23”

15 Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.” What I find amazing is that the Bible records these simple acts of sin. Unlike the Koran which cleans up its characters, the Bible shows these pillars of the faith in all their sinful impurity.Continue reading “6May2009 Genesis 18:15”

26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day. 27 And every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him. A new family is born! That’s right. Everyone who was circumcised that day entered a new family, a family thatContinue reading “1May2009 Genesis 17:26-27”

19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. Abraham laughed at God’s message that he, a man of a hundred years, and his wife of ninety years,Continue reading “29Apr2009 Genesis 17:19”

15 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. The changing of a name is an important milestone in many cultures. It symbolizes leaving the past behind and the beginning of something new. When women get married in this culture,Continue reading “28Apr2009 Genesis 17:15”

9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. As God dictates the terms of His covenant, His contract with His people, He began telling what He would do to fulfill His portion of the covenant. This was theContinue reading “26Apr2009 Genesis 17:9”

1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. God’s commands to Abram are very difficult to swallow. If I were Abram I think my first reaction might have been to ask if God had been watching my life over theContinue reading “24Apr2009 Genesis 17:1”

15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. In our age of always young, these words might seem like a curse rather than a blessing. The idea of being very old, or as the Hebrew says it “grey haired”, is almost repulsive in our culture.Continue reading “17Apr2009 Genesis 15:15”