“I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her . . .” Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” Genesis 17:16-17…
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Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant. Genesis 17:14 Lately, I’ve been using my drive time to listen to an addiction medicine course. In a recent lecture, the speaker explained that we all have this primitive part…
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. Genesis 17:11 Over the years, we’ve witnessed a recurrent story from the guys in our jail Bible study. When an inmate is released but then relapses and returns to jail, we always…
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No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. Genesis 17:5-6 For years, I’ve met weekly with a group…
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She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen[a] the One who sees me.” Genesis 16:13 (NIV) I’m always hesitant to write of my own life trials because I know something of your trials. Many of you have been through – or…
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And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt.” Genesis 16:5 I was trained in medicine during a time when we had much more relaxed attitudes about opioid prescribing.…
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Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. Genesis 16:2 When I first met my wife, it was love at first sight . . . for…
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Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great…
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