Two Approaches to God
Eric Motl
There are two approaches to God. Abram displays both in Genesis Ch. 15. The first approach to God is one of faith. When a person believes God at His Word and says, “Amen” to God, God’s response is always to reckon righteousness to that person. The second approach is one of legality (i.e., works). The […]
Abram Rescues Lot
Eric Motl
Lot fails to separate himself from Sodom, therefore, Sodom’s story becomes his. When we, as believers, befriend the world, the consequences can be devastating. Holiness is the answer for the follower of Christ. Abram, because of his love for Lot, raises a small force and defeats powerful kings in order to save his nephew and […]
Freed to Abandon
Eric Motl
Abram was a magnanimous man. He didn’t hold tightly to the blessings God had promised him. Instead, he trusted God’s Word and was free to abandon all material opportunity in favor of preferring others’ good. How can we be more like Abram? How can we be magnanimous people? How can we be freed to abandon?
Why We Wander
Eric Motl
After leaving everything behind to follow the One True Living God, and after beginning his faith-journey that led him out of a polytheistic culture into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, Abram, without any reference to God’s counsel, wanders down into Egypt. What led him to wander out of the promised land? What can we […]
Abraham the Believer
Eric Motl
Setting the Scene: Shortly before the fall of Sumer’s Third Dynasty (Ur destroyed in 2004 B.C. by the Elamites) God calls a man out of the darkness of occult-paganism and polytheism to follow and serve the one true Living God. Abram listens and acts. This is a major transition point in the Bible as God […]
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