Gen 26:1-11 reminds us clearly of human fallibility and sin, but it also shows us the faithfulness of God. Even though Isaac showed little faith in God at this point, not believing that God would or could protect him, God remained faithful to him. Paul tells Timothy...

Isaac was the ‘son of promise’, the son through whom God told him all the nations on earth would be blessed (see Gen 22:18). Nonetheless, as Gen 26 makes clear, he had to learn to hear God for himself. He may have been enormously blessed to be Abraham’s son, but he...

Sometimes, when we read the Bible, there’s a distinct sense of déjà vu, that feeling of ‘Here we go again!’ The cycle of faith, falling away, crying out to God and repentance which we see in Judges is so repetitive that we feel frustrated at people’s inability to...