Tag: covenant
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Day 016: Abram the Crosser-Over
The first time Abram is called “the Hebrew,” the Bible isn’t naming his ethnicity so much as his story. He is the crosser-over—the man who passed out of death and into promise. And in Genesis 15, we discover that the God who calls us to cross is also the God who crosses for us.
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Day 236: Jacob’s Portion (Jeremiah 51:19)
“Jacob’s Portion is not like these because he is the one who formed all things. Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of Armies is his name.”Jeremiah 51:19 CSB Through the Bible: Jeremiah 51-52 Whenever there is a “one-off“—a singular occurrence in Scripture of a word, phrase, or name—it is always worth digging…
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Day 016: What to Make of Genesis 15? (Genesis 15:17-18)
A blazing torch and a smoking firepot? What’s up with that?
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Day 273: The Sun and the Son (Malachi 1:11; 4:2)
Malachi closes the Old Testament with a promise: the Lord’s name will be great among the nations, and the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings. The last light of the prophets points us to the coming of Christ.
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Day 329: Hagar and Sarai and Ishmael and Isaac and Moses and Christ (Galatians 4:21-31)
Paul’s most complex metaphor isn’t meant to trip us up—it’s meant to set us free. In Galatians 4, Hagar and Sarai become a picture of slavery and freedom, law and promise, and the settled identity we have in Christ.