by Anne Hamilton | Dec 23, 2024 | Abraham, Covenant, Leviathan, Moses, peace, Phinehas
When we constantly scrub up the behaviour of our faith heroes so that their actions almost always appear irreproachable, sooner or later we’re going to paint God as the villain. That’s inevitable when someone or something other than the Lord becomes an idol. We...
by Anne Hamilton | Dec 5, 2024 | Abraham, abuse, Covenant, David, faithline, mantle, Melchizedek
Some years ago, after I finished a tertiary creative writing course, I was asked for feedback. I wrote a scathing letter about the Christian fantasy elective, summing up my criticism of it as a subject designed by a pair of seventeen-year-old males who thought they...
by Anne Hamilton | May 28, 2021 | Testing, Thresholds
In session 13, I spoke about divine testing. Perhaps the most memorable test in all Scripture is God’s request of Abraham. After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom...
