God says to Abram, “No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you…And Sarai your wife shall become...
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I ...
soul, mind, and strength: To allow God’s heartbeat to become our own; to feel God’s love pulsing through the world; to let go of those things other than God which consume and encumber us; to ourselves become so thin we might pass through the eye of a needle. That...
His word encourages and nudges, and if I let it, it has the power to lift me to His level. To the heavenlies. Yes, if I allow His word to penetrate, and I do, I find I’m able to rise, transcending this earthly realm that’s had the propensity to floor me. And when I find...
that obscuring haze of impossibility is known to be, the more truly the Necessity shines forth and the less veiledly it draws near and is present… I give You thanks, my God, because… You have shown me that You cannot be seen elsewhere than where impossibility appears and faces me.”[...
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, but God rescued Lot and some of his family members.While God didn't change His mind, it appears that Abraham ending up changing his. The only thing that Abraham's prayer for Sodom changed was Abraham's perspective on God's destruction of it. ...
God decided to blot out all human life, except for eight souls, to bring them all back to life in a happier world millennia later, ruled by the Kingdom of God. God chose ONE MAN to keep humanity alive — Noah, and his family. A few generations later God called ONE MAN, Abraham....
Abraham has faced fear in battle with the Mesopotamian kings. But now he faces fear of a different sort -- fear in the presence of an awesome God who appears to him. Yahweh -- a Shield and Reward (15:1) "After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: ...
used with other words and in names (e.g.,Zurishaddai), appears rarely. Of these names only Adonai has a satisfactory etymology. It is generally not possible to tell from English translations of the Bible what was the exact form of the name of God in the original. In Islam, the name ...
InJohn’s renditionof the Resurrection story today, Mary Magdalene stands weeping outside the tomb. An angel in white asks why she is weeping. She has lost her Lord twice–once in death by crucifixion and now his body is seemingly stolen. Then Jesus appears and asks her why she is weepin...