There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway to heaven And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed With a word she can get what she came for “Stairway to heaven” by Jimmy Page…
Category: Isaac and Jacob
The preacher Alexander Whyte wrote this about Jacob. “There was no Old Testament saint of them all who, first and last, saw more of the favour and forgiveness of God than Jacob. And yet, with all that, the great sins of Jacob’s youth and the…
The God of the Old Testament, the God of the nation of Israel, is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham who was called God’s friend, Isaac his son, and his son Jacob whose name God changed to Israel, were the Patriarchs. God’s covenant…
“The camels are coming! The camels are coming!” There is a passage I have been waiting to preach on for more than 40 years since I first heard a sermon on it. I can’t remember who the preacher was. The passage is Genesis chapter 24…
Has God ever put your faith to the test by asking you to give something up? Something so precious or so important to you that you don’t know how you would go on living without it? Sometimes God takes such things away from us –…