For the final week of my series on Abraham I want to consider how he was a man who set his heart on following God’s way to the end. Abraham’s life was changed as a result of receiving and believing God’s promises to him. He had left both his family and country to follow God’s [...]
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When we speak of Abraham it would be natural to think of his amazing faith in God and how he believed the promise given to him that he would have a son, despite the fact that both he and Sarah were old. The temptation is to elevate him in our thinking to be a great [...]
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Last week we looked at Abraham the man of faith and now I want to consider another of his attributes namely that Abraham was a generous man. In Genesis 13 we see an example of Abraham’s generosity shown towards Lot. The herdsmen from both men had been quarrelling, as the land where they dwelt was unable [...]
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I have recently been looking at Abraham in my daily Bible readings and have decided to share some thoughts over the next few postings on what we can learn from him. The first attribute I want to think about is Abraham being a man of faith. We first come across Abraham or Abram as he [...]
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