Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Both Cain and Hagar do something wrong. Both get a chance to correct their attitudes and change the course of their steps. The Lord basically says, "You can do better!"

Cain has no regard for the corr…

Don't miss this story of Hagar. It is one of the sweetest, most tender interactions between God and humans in the Bible.  We learn wonderful truths about God: He HEARS, He SEES, He LOOKS AFTER.  He C…

God "cuts a covenant" with Abram. Though Abram doesn't know it, God knows that in cutting this covenant, the Lord will have to CUT HIMSELF.  To keep covenant with mankind, extraordinary measures will…

God tells Abram some pretty unpleasant things.  His descendants will be sojourners in a foreign land, servants x 400 years. Ouch. He might have paused to ask, "WHY IS THERE EVIL?"

God also tells Abram…

"If God knew my sin, He'd never want me." If that is your thought, GOOD! You are ½ there.  We all wear filthy rags to a splendor party. In fact, ONLY sinners are invited. He tells us that by belief, …

How do sinners go to heaven? Specifically, how do UNholy people enjoy fellowship with a HOLY God forever?  How can these 2 unequal things co-exist? God has got to do some generous heavenly math on ou…

Imagine if your $100 contribution to your 401K was "matched" by your employer to the tune of $1,000,000,000. This is similar to the spiritual math that Abram sees in his spiritual account: He believe…

You are either listening or watching a podcast called BE WITH ME.  The title is rooted in today's passage from Gen 15:1  “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” It is on…

What do we do when we receive a windfall of blessing? Abram, for one, GIVES BACK.  He gives a tenth. 10%. A tithe. Real stuff. Real money that represents a genuine heart.

He also makes a vow before th…

Abram is faced with an unbearable, unreasonable, and impossible military situation exacerbated by the bad decisions of his knuckle headed nephew Lot. It is a tense moment of "What will Abram do next"…

The Assyrian Kings were the first mid-eastern world power. They were serious about the tribute that had to be paid from their subjugated regions. Suddenly, Sodom and Gomorrah STOPPED PAYING THEIR TAX…

Happy Fourth of July to those of you in the USA.  Speaking of real estate, today two people move into two real locations.  One moves toward the Person and promises and acreage of God--Abram.  The oth…

Welcome to the strange, perhaps morally ambiguous story of the Father of Faith, the "Exhalted Father with no current children", of Abram. He gives his wife, "tell 'em you're my sister" Sarai into the…

"Building an altar" is to stop what you normally do, and focus on what God is doing.  It is carving out one's attention to be directed appreciatively towards God.  For Abram, it is done after first h…

God Blesses Abram for a reason. The sweet promises and Person of God is not just for himself.  It is for all the families of the earth.  

God makes ONE redemptive plan.  It is through this ONE guy, an…

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Travel 10 generations with me from Noah to Abraham.  The problem is, even in a genealogical history, we encounter a family that can have no kid…

At the Tower of Babel, God sets the scene to use the scattering of the nations and the favoring of Israel, to benefit and draw back the nations.  This is coming in Chapter 12. 

When God "comes down to…

Modern people aren't the first to invent a "Sin City". That started with Babel and the Tower they built. Every generation seems to unify in wicked defiance against their Creator.  It is not a new sto…