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And God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many Christian preachers today largely neglect the Old Testament in their sermons, focusing instead on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ teachings and activities. As Fleming Rutledge points out, however, when the New Testament is disconnected from the context of the Old Testament, it is like a house with no foundation, a plant with no roots, or a pump with no well. In this powerful collection of 60...

This isn’t primarily a promise to Abraham at all. It’s a universal promise, a promise reaching to the ends of the earth and to the end of time as we know it. The offspring of this one man Abraham will be blessed by God, and through those offspring all other families who will ever live will be blessed by God. This is the promise that Abraham lived on for the rest of his life. But isn’t this rather odd, to say the least, that an elderly man and an elderly, infertile wife should be promised gazillions
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