I wrote Monday about Abram and Sarai responding to God’s direction and leaving Haran for the promise. I wrote on Tuesday about what Abram did while he didn’t know where he was going and what it meant. A few years ago, Nancy mentioned that story of leaving without knowing where we were going when I […]

Rich Dixon continues his story: Last time, the “stalker” asked, “What should I tell my boy?” This guy didn’t chase us for hours thinking I could fix an un-fixable situation. He knew the difficult path he and his son faced together. He knew their problem wouldn’t be solved. He appreciated knowing it was shared. “Tell […]

The second in a series of posts from Genesis 12 and John 3) Some things Abram did while waiting on God are helpful to us as examples. Abram wandered a lot while waiting for God to tell him where to stop. He was looking for food for his animals. So Abram did the work of a shepherd, the […]

Abram was seventy-five years old. His father had apparently died recently. Years before, his dad uprooted the family and started them on a migration. After a few hundred miles, they stopped in Harran. In modern geography, that’s a walk from south of Baghdad to southern Turkey. And now God gets Abram moving again. God’s plan […]

God. Abram was called by you and loved by you and blessed by you. But you say that it wasn’t his amazing personality or his wonderful business skills or his faithful worship that were behind the call and love and blessing.It was you all along. We forget that, God. We work hard sometimes, but sometimes […]