| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 49 secs | 0 Comments
Sometimes when reading the bible you come across a passage that seems to be little more than just a history lesson. This is one of those passages: The story of Jacob and Esau, and how Jacob cheated Esau out of the blessing his father intended for him. However the Bible was not intended to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 12 secs | 0 Comments
When was the last time your boss asked you to go and find a wife for his son? What? You’ve never been asked to do that? Well, actually, nor have I! In this chapter, Abraham asks his servant (unnamed here, but possibly Eliezer of Damascus – Gen. 15:2) to travel to Abraham’s home country, where […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 29 secs | 0 Comments
Genesis 22 – This is surely one of the most astonishing chapters in the whole of Scripture! Over the course of more than 20 years, Abraham had been told repeatedly by God that he would have “offspring” (Gen. 12:7, 13:15, 15:18), “a son who is your own flesh and blood” (15:4), “descendants” (15:13, 17:7). Eventually, […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 28 secs | 0 Comments
Finally Sarah has a baby. Isaac is born as God has said, as God has promised and at the time God said. When God promises us something, we can rely on Him delivering. God is always faithful to His word – even though there may be for us what seems to be significant delay. God […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 27 secs | 0 Comments
I find it so helpful that Biblical heroes are normal people, who struggle with patience and unbelief, just like us. Today’s passage, Genesis 18, mixes unbelief over God’s promises with passionate intercession for others. God had promised Abraham and Sarah descendents and kept promising it – Gen 12:1-3;Gen 13:16; Gen 14:4-6 and Gen 17:4-8. They […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 9 secs | 0 Comments
A 2015 NASA article reveals that, ‘It is very difficult to count the number of stars in the Milky Way from our position inside the galaxy. Our best estimates tell us that the Milky Way is made up of approximately 100 billion stars’. Can you imagine, then, how you might feel as you gaze up […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
Abram and Sarai had already been called to go to Canaan (which will become the Promised Land) in Gen 11:31. Life happens and they got stuck halfway in Haran. So often we start things and when difficulties come, we give up. And then the Lord reminds us to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 5 mins 33 secs | 0 Comments
The story of the tower of Babel is one of those stories often told in Sunday School. After a while it becomes so familiar that we easily read through it and think we know it all. Yet there is much here that is easily missed. The story goes a bit like this: Noah’s descendents had […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 45 secs | 0 Comments
In Genesis Chapter 3 v15 we read the words God spoke to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” This can be read as the first proclamation of […]