From the very beginning of the creation of the human race there have been men and women walking with God. At death Abraham joined their company for they are his people. If you walk with Christ this is what death means to you as well. And that is how the gospel came to us. Through the plan of God and through those men and women who brought it to us.

A faithful minister of Christ makes a fabulous marriage partner. A person given to idleness, who is effectively lazy, is a bad marriage partner

Love and marriage is a reflection of what it is that you believe and consider to be your highest joy.

You are never too young to learn to trust God and you are never so old that you will not be called upon to trust God anew. Faith is a lifetime journey.

Never pass over the story of Genesis 22 without falling to your knees and remembering Jesus. Thank Him that you were not sacrificed for He took your place.

Abraham provided for the basic necessities of Hagar and Ishmael as much as Hagar could carry and sent them away. And in that moment Abraham secured the future of the promise of God. God would make him into a great nation. Isaac was the child of promise. The promises of God were all coming true.

We could not have believed on our own because we delighted in sin and were enemies of God by nature. We could not have given ourselves a new heart for this old heart was dead to God. God visited us and we have become the children of promise.