We are God’s children through faith, a wonderful blessing that Paul discusses in Galatians Chapter 3. He opens the chapter by taking his readers back to Abraham. Long before laws, rituals, or religious performance, Abraham was declared righteous because he trusted God. God’s promise rested on faith, not on human achievement. This truth cuts across …
Abraham was protecting the covenant when he sent Keturah’s children away. It sounds quite hard-hearted to us today. Genesis 25: 6 But before he died, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to a land in the east, away from Isaac. [1] Abraham had learned a lesson when Ishmael made …
As the ark’s occupants left, God gave them a command for purposeful proliferation. The flood had destroyed all other life on the land. Now, God wanted them to multiply and populate the earth. Genesis 9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth… 7 Now be fruitful …
Blessing our children is one of the most important ways we can impact our children on an ongoing basis. Children and adults must be nurtured, encouraged, and cared for to become the people God wants them to be. There may be someone in your life the Lord is placing on your heart who needs to …