Genesis 17
God renews His covenant with Abraham, institutes circumcision as its sign, renames Sarah, and promises the birth of Isaac.
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Is anger worth it?
Del Tackett recommended a book entitled, I Once Was Lost (https://www.amazon.com/Once-Was-Lost-Postmodern-Skeptics/dp/083083608X). It is by two campus ministers who explored how their former students came to faith in Christ. What they found was these students all started with a need to find a Christian they could trust. Our walk through the Sermon on the Mount has challenged…
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Genesis 15-16
Genesis 15–16 highlights God confirming His covenant with Abraham, promising numerous descendants, and recounts the birth of Ishmael through Hagar after Sarah’s impatience with waiting for God’s promise.
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Genesis 14
Genesis 14 recounts Abraham rescuing Lot after a regional war and being blessed by Melchizedek.
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Genesis 12-13
Genesis 12–13 tells how God calls Abraham to leave his homeland and promises to bless him and make his descendants a great nation, while he and Lot separate to settle in different lands.
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Genesis 11
Genesis 11 describes humanity’s pride in building the Tower of Babel, leading God to scatter people by confusing their languages, and traces the family line leading to Abraham.
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Genesis 9-10
Genesis 9–10 records God’s covenant with Noah after the flood, including the rainbow as a sign, and outlines the spread of nations and peoples descended from his family.
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Genesis 6-8
Genesis 6–8 describes God judging widespread wickedness through a great flood, saving Noah, his family, and selected animals through the ark, and beginning restoration after the flood.
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Fulfillment of the law
One of the elements or applications of this passage (Matthew 5:16-20) we did not touch on Sunday was verse 18, “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” Jesus has told the hearers (then…
