“And I will make of you a great nation . . . and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”GENESIS 12:2-3+Called from Idolatry to Be a BlessingIt is a great and inexpressible gift that Ab...  Read More

"I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you."GENESIS 12:2+Blessed to Be a Great NationThe first gift is that Abraham will be "a great nation," that is, that his descendants will have a ki...  Read More

"I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing."GENESIS 12:2+Firm in FaithAbraham saw none of these things. In fact, he had abundant ...  Read More

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country... to the land that I will show you."GENESIS 12:1+The Lord's CallingWhen Moses was describing Noah (Genesis 6:9), he called him a righteous and perfec...  Read More

These are the generations of Shem.GENESIS 11:10+The Church Is Not a PlaceThis list of the fathers teaches us the basic doctrine that God has never altogether abandoned His Church, even though on some ...  Read More

There the LORD confused the language of all the earth.GENESIS 11:9+The Language Gap DefeatedTherefore it is a great blessing and an outstanding miracle of the New Testament that by means of various la...  Read More

"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language."GENESIS 11:7+Comfort through ConfusionThis also serves to comfort the true Church, that God not only sees the enterprises, machinations, and cou...  Read More

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower.GENESIS 11:5+The Lord Comes DownOver against our weakness and the smugness of the ungodly, Scripture bears witness that finally God descends, punis...  Read More

"Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves."GENESIS 11:4+Beware the False ChurchEmphasis lies on their saying: "Let us build our...  Read More

These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.GENESIS 10:32+The Connecting ThreadOne ...  Read More

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.GENESIS 9:20-21+A Saint FallsThis is indeed a silly and altogether un...  Read More

 "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the ...  Read More