from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2   “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing life will be spared because of you.” 14  When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very Take her and go!” So although the entire world is very familiar with the first half of Genesis 12, it's easy to either

Acts 1:21-26 (NIV) CONTEXT: The very first thing the brand new Church did once Jesus ascended into heaven Show us which of these two you have chosen 25  to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left But Peter, who's never been afraid to take bold steps, and who certainly asserts that Jesus gave him Then instead of making the pick himself, he led in prayer and then the group cast lots to determine It wasn't just a supreme leader or exclusive council who made appointments on a whim.

Daniel 12:1-3 (NIV) CONTEXT: Daniel has been experiencing "a prophetic (and very selective) vision of shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. Daniel's vision is quite clear as to the distinguishing characteristic of the people who wake up to heavenly But don't be afraid of them; their purpose is not to frighten you or put you on edge every time you turn

Summary We meet Moses in today's passage at a very low point in his life. been in God's presence for an extended time, he returns to find his fickle people dancing around hand made God would have been just in striking Moses with lightning for making such a demand asking for more glory lowest points of his life, Moses resists both of those extreme caricatures, and asks God for something very

That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, Yes, the Holy Spirit was very active in these young assemblies, but at the same time they were a hot finger at them, since we all have a propensity to fall into the same trap they did: to think that we're made

covenant described in Jeremiah 31, especially verses 33 through 34, “For this is the covenant that I will make Make sure you personally know God and His grace!

fathers and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he made In other words, nobody - neither the clergy nor the laity - made worshipping God a priority anymore. In the letter he sent out, he told the people that this unfaithfulness caused God to make Israel "an Quite the opposite, in fact, as King Hezekiah would be very quick to agree with.

He makes plain to His newly freed covenant people as they began their trek to the Promised Land not to Make sure, by the profession of your mouth and the belief in your heart (Romans 10:9) that you are in

One of the key purposes in all of those Old Testament laws was to make God's people look really different We understand that these are covenant children, and that the same promises the God made to the Israelites

goodness, seeing that man had plunged himself in this manner into both physical and spiritual death and made comforted him, promising to give him his Son, “born of a woman,” to crush the head of the serpent, and to make these doctrines of grace we've been studying these last few weeks is that you must demonstrate the very