To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to man and ...
This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one. We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, ...
Q: In our Friday morning Bible class (ladies), we are reading Hebrews. and we read in Hebrews 8:8-12, which quotes Jeremiah ...
Photo by Sasha Freemind, courtesy of Unsplash. A covenant that becomes open to more and more people over time is a theme that runs through parts of Scripture. This theme lies in tension with a desire ...