Episode #70
69 | The Hall of Fame of Faith (Genesis 12-25)
Dear Friends, We're in week 2 of our journey through the Old Testament, and this week we move from the beginning of everything into the beginning of a family — the family of faith. Our reading is Genesis 12–25, and we get to meet Abram (later Abraham), and learn from his messy, beautiful story of trusting God. I'm also excited to share that my dad- a pastor and a coach for over 55 years, will be joining us again on our upcoming episodes! He is passionate about every believer being able to read and understand the Bible for themselves, and to know Jesus more deeply- which is the heart of this Cover-to-Cover Project!! Our key verse this week is Genesis 15:6: "And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness." — Genesis 15:6 (ESV) Hebrews 11, sometimes known as "The Hall of Fame of Faith" lists name after name — Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah — and every single entry starts the same way: "By faith..." Not by performance. Not by getting it right. By faith. By simply taking God at His Word, again and again, even when things didn’t make sense. Although performance is the language of athletics, the gospel says our standing with God was never going to come from performance because Jesus performed perfectly in our place, and what gets counted to us is His righteousness, received the same way Abraham received it: by faith, not by works, "so that no one may boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9). Love to you all, Candace Is there an area in your life where you have been relying on your own performance, instead of resting in what's already been credited to you by faith? Abraham believed God's promise long before he saw it fulfilled. Is there a promise of God that you are being asked to believe right now, even without seeing the outcome yet? Hebrews 11 names ordinary, flawed people for their faith rather than their flawless record. Does that change how you view your own past mistakes or current weaknesses?
