Gen. 24:19-26
Two nations were fighting within Rebecca.
In the words of Pastor Thangngur,
Like two nations fighting within Rebecca,
Have good and evil fought inside you?
The side you take will determine who will become the inheritor.
–Independent Kohran Hlabu #276 “Whose side will you take?”
Gen. 16:1-16 Since Sarai could not conceive, she gave her slave girl Hagar to Abram. But when Hagar conceived, “she looked with contempt on her mistress” (Gen. 16:4). This has very deep roots. When humankind was created, we were created to be in fellowship with God. But that relationship was broken with the fall of…
Gen. 34 As we read through Genesis 34, we see the story of Jacob, his sons, and most importantly, Dinah. Jacob had settled in Sechem. There at Sechem, Dinah went out to visit the women of the region. Sechem, the son of Hamor, prince of the region “saw her, he seized her and lay with…
Ex. 3-4 The Israelites were in captivity in Egypt and were oppressed. They “groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God” (Ex. 2:23). Therefore, the LORD called Moses while he was tending to his sheep in Horeb. He was called to set the LORD’s…
Sam 73 Introduction In 2003, Idi Amin Dada, the notorious Ugandan dictator died. During his tenure as the ‘all-in-all’ of everything in Uganda from 1971 to 1979, more than 500,000 people were killed. Like him, Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) of Cambodia was either directly or indirectly responsible for the death of more than 2,000,000 people…
Romans 4 We have been talking about Abraham quite a number of times before. He was a good and obedient man. Even the Bible said of him: “If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about” (Rom. 4:2). Yes, in terms doing works, he had something to boast about. But, it continued,…