Circumcision is a strangely weird idea. It seems out of place in today's world, and seems to belong to an ancient time. And yet, in the ancient world it was also an unusual idea, not commonplace at all. So how did it even get going,...
Going through Genesis in detail this year for the Bible videos caused me to visit a question of curiosity. Abraham is promised a son by God, and before he is divinely given Isaac, he fathers Ishmael with a slave wife. The way it is sometimes preached is...
The covenant that the Lord makes with Abraham in Genesis 15 is unusual because it is a one-sided covenant between two groups. Like a contract, a covenant has two parties, both who give and receive in participation with the arrangement. Usually a greater party makes a...
Rainbows give a good feeling. Everyone loves rainbows. My favourite was when flying to Africa, looking out the window below the plane, I saw a fully circular rainbow from above. Never seen anything like it before or since. The rainbow first appears in scripture in the...
Many of the Old Testament ‘elements’ are shadows to point to Christ. In one sense, the whole thing is about Christ, but pre-configured. for example the Sabbath is a key part of the Old Testament - but it is a theological concept that points to finding...
God is Merciful and Forgiving. God is also Omniscient; he knows everything. How can God forgive someone for a sin when, in his infinite knowledge, he already knows they will sin again? Our perspective of forgiveness is a bit two-dimensional, and we think of it in very linear...
'The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.' Revelation 20:14b-15. If the Lake of Fire, and final judgement in the book of Revelation is the second death, then...
A few years ago while working on the house, one of my young children approached me and asked, 'Who made God?' When you have a six year old asking questions like that, its a sign of intelligence. He wasn't asking because he was trying to prove the...
What does unanswered prayer say about God? A prayer which produces no result isn't necessarily an unanswered prayer. I remember the day that one of my children wanted $100 to spend on junk food. That petition produced no results. The fact that they didn't get what they...
Walking in the woods recently I spotted a tree with three stems. It was clearly one tree, but also sort of like three trees at the same time. Technically this would be called a 'multi-stem' tree, and its a common enough thing. Immediately I thought...
