Though Esau and Jacob were twins, Esau was born first, and therefore received the "birthright" of the firstborn son. Someday, when his father's inheritance was divided among his children, Esau...
Art Linkletter was right. Kid's say the darndest things. And they say the darndest things about God sometimes. If I close my eyes and think, I can remember a lot of the things...
The promise God had once made to Hagar (Gen. 16:10), the mother of Ishmael, was now coming true. He would indeed be the father of many. Moreover, even as an angel prophesied of...
I didn't experience the death of someone I knew well until I was in high school, when my favorite English teacher died suddenly of a heart attack. It was a devastating time of...
Genesis 24 tells the story of how Rebekah became Isaac's wife. As was common in her culture, she was committed to Isaac by the men in her family. Yet when her family wanted...
On a regular basis, I run what I call "make-happy" programs on my computer. Antivirus and other software programs check for threats...
Indeed, the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way: leading him to the land of promise, giving him a son even in his old age, protecting him from the implications of his unbelief...
I watched a middle-age lady kneel on the floor in front of a long velvet skirt, her mouth bristling with pins. She was impeccably dressed in a blue St. John's knit suit, a...
God had promised to give Abraham the land of Canaan, and so he left everything behind to go to that land. But during his lifetime, he was only a stranger and foreigner in...
The CEO of a large, financial services company announced his early resignation without fanfare or explanation. He would retire three years earlier than he had previously committed. Reactions were...
We can only imagine Abraham's feelings when God told him to sacrifice Isaac. Child sacrifice would have been familiar to Abraham from his exposure to pagan religious practices. But God had never...
Editor's Note: Most stories at TheHighCalling.org offer practical advice for daily living. Every now and then, a story so beautiful and true simply inspires us to live as children of God. Dain...
Abimelech, king of Gerar, appears for the second time in Genesis. In Chapter 20, he was delivered by God's intervention after Abraham deceived him about the true identity of Sarah. In Chapter 21,...
When Sarah saw Ishmael, the son of her husband, Abraham, and her slave-girl, Hagar, making fun of her own son, Isaac, she was understandably angry. Parents who have watched some child tease their...
In Genesis 18, Sarah laughed out of disbelief. There was no way she would ever bear a son in her old age, in spite of God's promise. Then, in Genesis 21, Sarah laughed...
In Genesis 12, Abraham sojourned to Egypt to escape famine in Canaan. Because he was afraid that the Egyptians might kill him to steal his wife, he hid her true identity, claiming only...
Several months ago a dear friend, pastor of a large and flourishing church, tendered his resignation because he could no longer live and lead the congregation under the authority of the...
Out of desperation, Lot's daughters got their father drunk in order to trick him into impregnating them. Under the influence of too...
Know any people in your life you can count on just to be there? You never have to check their availability. Paul had a friend like that. “Luke alone is with me” (...
Walking along our small town's main street recently, I noticed a construction company's sign on a renovation work-in-progress. The name of the company, which dominated the sign in bold black...
