15 days ago by Daniel Barcos

Versículos 1—8. El Señor le aparece a Abraham. 9—15. Reprensión de la incredulidad de Sara. 16—22. Dios revela a Abraham la destrucción de Sodoma. 23—33. La intercesión de Abraham por Sodoma. Vv. 1—8. Abraham estaba esperando atender a cualquier viajero cansado pues no había posadas como las hay ent ...

31 days ago by Rose

Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay Indefinite Detention Center, January 2012 Blind Willie Johnson had it right back in 1927 when he sang, “If I had my way, I’d tear this building down.” The U.S. concentration camps on Guantanamo Bay turn 10 years old on Wednesday. As Americans — and as people of faith — we ...

100 days ago by Faith in Jesus Christ

Abraham Gets Strange Visitors Genesis 18 Abraham's visitors tell him that Sodom will be destroyed. IT WAS NOONDAY, and everywhere the sun shone hot upon the plains. But Abraham sat in the cool shade of his tent door, beneath a tree. Presently three strange men drew near. They did not look like other ...

109 days ago by Daniel Hannan

One hundred and eleven MPs kept faith with their constituents. Two resigned their government posts rather than behave falsely: Stewart Jackson and Adam Holloway. Adam, whose Gravesham constituency lies within my region, is a former Special Forces officer who regularly visits Libya and Afghanistan at ...

116 days ago by Brian Kelley

In Near Eastern culture there is the concept of hospitality, where you treat and take care of visitors to your home. So what we see in Abraham’s example is easily explainable as part of the culture of his day: And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in th ...

133 days ago by Shawn Birss

(This sermon was first delivered on October 2, 2011 at Look to the Cross in Edmonton, Alberta. For a further study of the ideas within this sermon, see the previous week's posts in this blog.) REVIEW: Week 1 - Creation (Genesis 1-2): God created purpose out of the void. He turned the void into his t ...

136 days ago by Shawn Birss

Read Genesis 18 Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. The visitors to Abraham tell him that God intends to destroy Sodom because of his relationship with God. God’s covenant is a spec ...

136 days ago by Shawn Birss

Read Genesis 18 Three visitors come to Abraham and Sarah’s tent. Abraham offers them food (hospitality). Sodomites, who are mentioned in the second half of chapter 18, are not hospitable Mary has a baby miraculously and is visited by three wise men. Sarah is told by three wise men that she will mira ...

137 days ago by Joel Mattsson-Boze

Genesis 18 Sarah laughs at the promise of God, because she thinks it is ridiculous. Genesis 18:10-12 NIV Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. Abr ...

138 days ago by Bernie Lutchman

WAITING FOR THE PROMISE (WE RETURN TO HEBREWS 11, VERSE BY VERSE TODAY'S WORD - BELIEVE) Has someone ever made you a promise which not only sounded to good to be true, but could even be termed totally way out there? I know how human nature would react - we would say "now way"...but inside, our "will ...