More Than a Feeling
Eric Motl
What kind of faith can really save a person? What is “saving faith?”
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 […]
Three Steps to Victory Over Sin
Eric Motl
Abram lived in a time when very few knew of the One True God of Heaven. As we study his life, we are privileged to watch God reveal Himself faithfully to this man of God. With Abram, we are brought steadily into God’s eternal plan of salvation as He reveals it more and more. Each […]
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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