Author: Norm

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. [Genesis 22:8] This is a hard story, how can God test Abraham like this; and how can Abraham be willing to do this – today we wouldn’t…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God. [Genesis 21:33] This passage ends with Abraham ‘calling on the name of the Lord” by a tree he planted. It means that he set up a memorial to worship…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, for the LORD had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah. [Genesis 20:17-18] As I read this story, I find myself…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.” When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” [Genesis 17:1-2] God’s desire is to repopulate this world…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness. [Genesis 15:6] God makes an amazing promise to Abram, and guarantees it by making a covenant. Abram trusts God, and God is pleased, for this is all that God asks of us – to trust Him! It…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.”…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like…