Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Genesis 22:2 NASB Take – It’s been almost ten years since we examined this pivotal verse. Want to review what we’ve already learned? Here are…
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Brought– When I wrote Guardian Angel, I thought the title would be The Perfect Enemy. My thinking was this: God brings into the lives of husbands precisely those wives who act as polishing stones, grinding away…
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Brought – Why is the role of women in the family and in society so misunderstood? Why are challenges to the typical characterizations of women seen as threats? Why does…
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Fashioned – The Bible is a giant connect-the-dots puzzle. Understanding a passage as a stand-alone text often does not capture the depth of the words or the context. We are…
The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Genesis 3:12 NASB Gave – In a recent conversation a very intelligent woman raised an objection to the trajectory of my book, Guardian Angel. She claimed that the fact that God gave the woman…
He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” Genesis 22:2 NASB Take – This verse is universally acknowledged as the pivotal example of Abraham’s…
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Brought – “bôʾ, the fourth most frequently occurring verb in the ot, is used 2570 times, for the most part with everyday meanings of “go, arrive, enter a house,” or,…
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Had taken from – The purpose of marriage is unity. Genesis 2:24 tells us that we are joined together in order to become one flesh. But it isn’t just about…
The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Fashioned – If you read the Genesis account of creation within the framework of covenant commitments, you might notice the following pattern. God makes a covenant of power with male…
And He said, “Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.” Genesis 22:2 (JPS commentary on Genesis) Go – The test of Abraham concludes the journey…
