Tag Archives: Abraham

I came home to sadness from my first year at a Christian college. My Grandma (Mother’s mother) was on her deathbed in the hospital. When I visited her, she could barely carry on a conversation. I did learn that she had doubts about her salvation. How could that be? She ...

  Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: So, retirement and now what? According to Ecclesiastes there is a season, time and purpose for all things under heaven, while here on earth.  But sometimes, do you think, now what? ...

Noah Webster spent 28 years completing his 1828 Merriam Webster Dictionary, which includes many definitions based on biblical standards.  He believed that an earthly education without God’s Word was useless. One of the many words in his original dictionary is the verb skirted–living on the border of something, near the extremity.  And ...

As told in Genesis 22:2, God commanded Abraham to, “Take your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering.” This was a most difficult command for Abraham, being that Isaac was a child of promise (Genesis 12:2-3; 15:4-5). ...

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches ...