It is wonderful to see the fruit of God’s faithfulness in Abraham’s life. Instead of working to create God’s promises by his own hands, Abraham is now making decisions within the context of God’s proven faithfulness—and it is so encouraging for us as people growing in the image of God to see!

Much of life is ordinary—work, family, responsibilities, obligations, the normal events of birth and life and death. It was no different for Abraham. And in all this, God was bringing about his promises in the regular, ordinary events of life. God...

It is a familiar episode—the test of Abraham in God’s command to offer up Isaac—his only son—as a burnt offering. Even like that, it confronts our sensibilities, even outrages them.

Laughter is such a marvelous sound. It reflects deep joy, deep happiness, and a delight that just bursts out. At the weaning feast for Isaac, there is another laughter – the laughter of scorn from the older brother (vs.9). Unnamed in this...

Abraham has grown - grown as a man of faith. And then, in his nomadic ways, settled near a powerful king, in Gerar, he stumbles. His besetting sin - that he cannot quite trust that God can make do without. Abraham taking matters into his own hands...

It is very easy to get over-familiar with Jesus. It is very easy to allow our familiarity with Jesus to spill over into a level of contempt – not obvious, but just there. You see, we know a lot about Jesus – and that familiarity can lead to a...

Every now and again, it is worth it to stop and pause and consider the things we are pursuing, what we are involved in, to take stock! At those moments, we ask questions about what gives us joy, what is valuable, what consumes us, what we are devoted...

Our world desperately needs peace – in fact, we yearn for it at so many levels. We even desire peace in the very fabric of the earth, in the way our world works. And so much of our lack of peace is due to cross words – to poor communication, to...

What was the mission of Jesus? The whole mission of Jesus is a great project of reunification. And that is such a contrast with all the disunity, conflict and division we see in our world today.

Message from Bernard Gabbott on Sunday, 28 March 2021