Sometimes the difficulties of life can feel like the intense heat of the desert sun bearing down on us. We will not survive for very long without spiritual refreshment. Will there be enough? Where can we find it? Isaiah tells us that there are wells of salvation along our journey's path.

25-06-2023 - Lucas Durant

In Abraham's final test, we discover the essence of God's call, the response of faith, and the provision of the lamb. Even when we can't see our way though a situation, faith means trusting that the LORD will see to it.

18-06-2023 - Lucas Durant

There is joy and laughter in the fulfillment of God's covenant promises. Recognising the sheer impossibility of his works gives great security to Christians.

11-06-2023 - Lucas Durant

When His people are radically faithless and are shockingly sinful, how does the LORD respond? He is faithful to his promises, he accomplishes his purposes and he sometimes even uses our faithlessness to achieve his own goals. What a good God!

04-06-2023

The Sodom and Gomorrah story is a sordid affair. What are we to make of it? That though the Lord patiently offers mercy at every opportunity, the day of his catastrophic judgment against the unrighteous is coming.

28-05-2023 - Lucas Durant

The promises of God made Sarah laugh, but it was cynical laughter. What she needed was her own encounter with the LORD. When the LORD comes down to meet us, he turns our cynicism to joy.

21-05-2023 - Lucas Durant

When the LORD made a covenant with Abraham and with his descendants, he gave the outward, visible sign of circumcision to signify and inward, spiritual reality.

14-05-2023 - Friedemann Barniske

Sarai and Abram doubted the Lord. They were worried that if they didn't see to their own needs and desires, they would never receive their blessing. But by grasping after their own reward, they ended up blowing up their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Hagar trusted the Lord who saw her. For when the Lord sees, he cares.

07-05-2023 - Lucas Durant

God is committed to blessing his people. He graciously offers us the reassurance of a covenant, and enters into a binding relationship with us. Here's the deal - He will keep the covenant, or he will bear the penalty; We will keep the covenant, or he will bear the penalty.

30-05-2023 - Lucas Durant

Where are we looking for paradise? Lot, who lived by sight, sought paradise in his surroundings. Abram, who lived by faith in the call of God, sought paradise in the gracious promises of Lord.

23-05-2023 - Lucas Durant