Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading There are many short stories written about Abraham sacrificing Isaac.  In at least one of them, Isaac was portrayed as a young man who did not want to be sacrificed, didn’t want to die, so he ran around the camp site trying allude capture by his 100+ year … More The Sacrifice of Isaac

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading Remember that story a few chapters earlier where Lot made the choice to live in the region of Sodom because he saw the land was good for grazing?  That choice lead into Lot and his family and possessions being taken captive.  Fortunately, 80-something-year-old Abraham rode off like Indiana … More Sodom and Gomorrah

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading Sarah had passed that point long ago.  She was 90 and well into menopause.  Even before menopause set in she had not been able to have a child.  That was hard.  All those years being married to Abraham.  Waiting, hoping, waiting, hoping, waiting, waiting, waiting, hope fading.  Even … More Abandoned Hopes Restored

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading Here is where Abram (meaning Exalted Father) becomes Abraham (Father of a Multitude) and Sarai becomes Sarah (both mean Princess, but might have a slightly different slant).  Like circumcision was to be an outward sign of his covenant with God, so the change of names was to reflect … More Covenant

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading God’s time is not our time, and God’s ways are not our ways.  Abram was almost 100 and Sarai almost 90 (and quite barren).  It was then that God said that they would have a son through whom would come innumerable descendants. Okay.  They believed God, they just … More Moving Ahead of God

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading In chapter 11 of Genesis, we read that Lot’s father had died.  We also read that Abram’s wife, Sarai, was barren.  It’s easy to guess that Abram became as a surrogate father to Lot, even though Lot was probably already an adult by this time.  So when Abram … More The Early Cost of Lot’s Choice

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading Today we meet one of the most pivotal men of history: Abraham.  Today we will read the beginning of what made him such a great man of faith. If you look at the chart of life-spans of those from Adam through Abram [Abram, aka Abraham – more on … More God Calls Abraham

Part 1 – Flexibility Training – Reading Today’s story is a short one, but it tells how languages came to be.  First read Genesis 11:1-9. Genesis 11 (ESV) Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar … More The Tower of Babel