The same passage a week on — the struggle in… read more

Genesis 25 and the birth of Jacob and Esau, on… read more

Rebekah at the well, watering ten camels — 200 to… read more

Plenty of people have saving faith and are not faithful people. Pastor Adam separates the two in Genesis 24, follows a servant who lost everything and kept steadfast love anyway, and draws a boundary line between the land behind you and the one ahead.

God had spoken to Abraham at least nine times and never used his name. The first time he says “Abraham!” is the moment of the test. Pastor Adam reads that as a graduation, and asks whether anyone actually wants God to speak the way they say they do.

Sarah is ninety and holding a newborn. Pastor Joshua Pigg gives one sentence to carry out of the room — God keeps his word — and traces the pattern of a God who announces before he acts, with five things to do about it.

Genesis 17 picks up the story of Isaac after Abraham,… read more

Abraham arranges a wife for Isaac and refuses to compromise on where she comes from. A study in what wholehearted obedience looks like when the promise is still unfinished, and what it costs to keep faith attached to the practical decisions.

The camera shifts to Isaac, carrying the wood for his own sacrifice up the mountain without knowing it. What is credited to Abraham is not the completion but the willingness to release — and the text keeps insisting the two of them went on together.