Genesis 30 Pastor Mark Hudson Rachel speaks for the first time and while her eyes are pretty, her speech is not.  She is the second person who wanted something or…

Genesis 28 Pastor Mark Hudson Rebekah is portrayed a bundle of energy.  When we first meet her in Gen 24, she is busy in 18ff. She has been working overtime…

Genesis 26 Devotional By Pastor Lawrence This is the only chapter dedicated to the patriarch Isaac, but sadly, it doesn’t really provide us much new information. Instead, it feels more…

 Genesis 25 Pastor Mark Hudson The first 18 verses are an interesting summation of of Abraham’s last days.  We also discover that Ishmael and Esau are no longer the center…

Genesis 23 Pastor Mark Hudson Genesis 23 is just a great story.  There is also a spiritual significance that Abraham buries his wife in the promised land before the land…

Genesis 22 by Pastor David Groendyk In one of the greatest tests of a person’s faith in history, Abraham is called by God to offer his son Isaac as a…

Genesis 21 Devotional By Pastor Lawrence When the promised son is finally born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, there is laughter all around. In vv.3-4 we see…

Genesis 20 Pastor Mark Hudson Abraham is now dealing with the nations surrounding the promised land.  The first foreign leader Abraham interacts with is the Philistine Abimelech.  As the story…

Genesis 19 Devotional By Pastor Lawrence There were hundreds of ancient Canaanite cities in existence in the days of Abraham, but none of their names are as familiar to us…

Genesis 18 Pastor Mark Hudson Genesis 18 shows “a careful balancing of two central theological postions with respect to the divince presence and power”  (Sailhammer, EBC, vol 2. p. 143). …