Jill Partis
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God’s Outrageous Plan
Genesis 17:15-22 For many years God had been speaking to Abraham about the son He would give him and we know that Abraham had believed the promise. But it seems that, until this moment Abraham had not realised that the mother of this son would be his wife, Sarah and, when the Lord spelled it
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Hardness of Heart – What is it?
To discover what constitutes hardness of heart we will look at some of the examples described in the Bible. The first person said to be hard of heart is the Pharaoh to whom God sent Moses with the message that he must let his Israelite slaves (God’s chosen people) leave Egypt. God knew that Pharaoh
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Hardness of heart
The Bible talks about a condition it describes as “hardness of heart”. What is this, why might it be a problem for us, and what should we do about it? Over the course of three studies we will answer these questions and see what we need to do to prevent it happening to us.
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Circumcised Hearts
Genesis 17:9-14 In what sounds a very bizarre instruction to our modern ears, God now told Abraham that he and all the other males in his household should undergo circumcision – the cutting away of the foreskin – as a sign of their covenant with Him. Circumcision would demonstrate that
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What is in a Name?
Genesis 17:1-5 The events of this chapter took place 24 years after God’s call of Abram. He was now 99 years old and his son, Ishmael, was 13 but the child God had promised had still not arrived. It seems that Abram had settled for the idea that Ishmael would be his heir (see v.18)
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Walking in Step
Genesis 16:1-16 Ten years after Abram had believed God’s promise of a son, he and Sarai were still childless. In today’s passage we see that Sarai got fed up with waiting and decided to take matters into her own hands. Paul, commenting on this episode in Galatians 4:21-31, makes it clear that Sarai’s decision –
