Abraham

biblical person · 19 episodes

240Times Change 16 Mar 2026 9:34¶ 39 “And here, where things happened is almost more important than what exactly happened – not in general, but for this argument. He was in…” 10:09¶ 40 “He oddly seems kind of slow to go where he’s supposed to be. God had said, “Leave your home and your kindred,” but dad…” 10:42¶ 41 “Eventually he comes out of the land of the Chaldeans, which is where Israel eventually ends up in bondage, and he dwells in Canaan.…”

235The Words of the Prophets 2 Feb 2026 47:26¶ 146 “One last tag note to that, and probably where I should have started. The first mention of prophets is not Moses, but when the…” 48:00¶ 147 “You can think here of Abraham wrestling with God, debating with God, “If there be but 40 people in the city…” Prophets were people…”

187Purple Dye and Child Sacrifice 1 Apr 2024 20:13¶ 59 “Okay, then let me bring the biblical record up to where you are, because you just spanned 1,000 years. We run into the Canaanites…” 20:41¶ 60 “Sodom and Gomorrah are Canaanite cities and we know about them. But when Abraham’s faith is being tested God gives him a vision where…” 20:59¶ 61 “The Amorites were one of the larger Canaanite tribes he had to deal with. In other words, “God is going to give you and…”

182By Faith Abraham 26 Feb 2024 9:51¶ 31 “And that’s the position we’re going to take tonight as we look at some of what the New Testament says about this. We had…” 10:10¶ 32 “Three religions claim him as their father, and these three religions have helped shape the world, but he himself ran an admirable cattle business…” 10:37¶ 33 “He really didn’t do much. He didn’t lead Israel out of Egypt. He didn’t call fire down from heaven. He didn’t raise the dead.…”

181I Believe in Dragons 19 Feb 2024 36:27¶ 127 “Yes. Mostly he’s out there in the wilderness raising cows and sheep and selling them and making friends with other sheikhs who are doing…” 37:18¶ 128 “Somehow God came to him and said, “I’m going to bless you. I’m going to make of you a great nation. You’re going to…” 37:30¶ 129 “Abram knew enough to understand that this ties into the promise that God made to Eve at the garden gate. There’s someone coming who’s…”

171Tithing 7 Aug 2023 16:34¶ 62 “As we read through scripture we see it’s 10% of the increase, not 10% of your capital goods. God is not out to decapitalize…” 13:36¶ 55 “God has called Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees and said, “In thy seed all nations will be blessed.” Paul in Galatians 3…” 15:38¶ 60 “Whoever he was, he’s greater than Abraham on two counts: Melchizedek blesses Abram, and Abraham pays tithes to Melchizedek. What does Melchizedek do for…”

168Walls (Part 2) 10 Jul 2023 2:23¶ 8 “We come then I suppose to Abram, who’s called away from a land full of cities. Archeology, like history, we’re told begins in Sumer.…” 4:05¶ 11 “What Abraham was looking for was something he could not find in this world. He wasn’t looking for a pre-made pre-fab city that was…” 6:20¶ 19 “Abram abandoned Ur of the Chaldees, a city dedicated to the moon goddess, and went out away from any kind of organized city. He…”

88A Mother in Israel (Part 4) - Jerusalem 18 Oct 2021 13:45¶ 43 “Paul says allegory, but he doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. He means that in this history there is a spiritual principle being worked out…” 14:24¶ 44 “There was a young slave girl named Hagar from out of Egypt, and Sarah pointed her out and said, “Will you take her, and…” 15:14¶ 47 “He did receive the sign of the promise. He was circumcised. He was recognized as being within the covenant, received the mark of the…”

79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 0:49¶ 3 “So let’s start with Abraham. He never inherited the land that God promised him in his lifetime, but he didn’t seem too bothered by…” 6:22¶ 19 “That’s what Abraham was most concerned with, that blessing, because compared with that, inheriting some real estate really doesn’t amount to a whole lot.…” 8:31¶ 24 “So why was Abraham not worried that he didn’t get that in his lifetime? He was more patient than we are. We want everything…”

72The Just Shall Live By Faith 20 Jun 2021 28:25¶ 96 “And Abraham doesn’t even know exactly where he’s going, but he too is called to leave the world he knew, with all of its…” 28:48¶ 97 “His inheritance is a token. He doesn’t even have a place to lay down a foundation for a house. “He looked for a city…” 29:53¶ 99 “They knew it was in the future, but they didn’t know how far. They probably didn’t guess, for them, about 1500 years, but of…”

71What Is Faith? 6 Jun 2021 24:53¶ 91 “But wait, that was something that had already happened. That was back in Chapter 15 before Abraham looked up at the stars and God…” 25:15¶ 92 “The word here ‘fulfill,’ this wasn’t a prophecy to fulfill as we normally think of this. This was a statement, a verdict God had…” 25:47¶ 93 “So before the eyes of men, Abraham is justified. His works demonstrate the reality of his faith. This is the traditional interpretation the Church…”

57The Economics of Sacrifice 31 Jan 2021 12:26¶ 35 “At least to the extent that God had promised Abram the whole land of Canaan and it was his by divine right, and yet…” 12:42¶ 36 “I suppose he could have simply said, “It’s mine. Everyone back off. I have a bunch of armed servants who will back me up,”…” 12:19¶ 34 “Isn’t there a parallel there with Abraham purchasing Sarah’s burial cave?”

23The Sacrifice of Isaac 7 Jun 2020 22:33¶ 79 “In a sense he came from Abraham originally in a figure. Abraham’s body, we’re told, was dead. So was Sarah’s womb. Yet, out of…” 23:53¶ 83 “This is the faith of Abraham, and this is exactly what Kierkegaard was not looking for. The last thing Kierkegaard wants is us trying…” 24:21¶ 84 “I’m sure Abraham still was not thrilled about the idea of running a knife through his son, but he knew that whatever he did…”

22The Sociology of Dominion 31 May 2020 23:10¶ 91 “He’s the father of the faith and the father of all who believe. Three great religions claim him as their father on one level…” 23:25¶ 92 “He left civilization and went to the middle of nowhere. He had a large cattle ranch and sheep herd concern going on, so that…” 23:51¶ 93 “He must have been a great businessman because he got these complete pagans not only to trust him and respect him, but even to…”

21Angels Unawares 24 May 2020 4:41¶ 17 “Now, Abraham was kind of old at this point, and here these three apparently men appear, seemingly out of nowhere. Abraham sees them, gets…” 5:03¶ 18 “He does not know these people. He does not know their antecedents. He does not ask for titles. He does not ask for a…” 5:21¶ 19 “We’ve seen that Abraham was a man with a sheikdom of maybe 3,000 people. He had servants who could do this. He had servants…”

20A Bond in Blood 17 May 2020 9:55¶ 39 “This Abram would have known, so as Abram is looking there in expectation, no doubt as a humble man wondering, “How am I ever…” 7:14¶ 22 “But in that context then, Abraham says, “Well, yeah, you just told me I’m going to inherit the land, but how will I know…” 17:22¶ 56 “So we leave Chapter 15, and Chapter 16 is the lapse of Abram and Sarai into a compromised unbelief. It’s not that they don’t…”

19He Looked For a City 10 May 2020 9:56¶ 37 “What we’re seeing is that Abram was already busy living a godly life before a watching world, and by his virtue, by the public…” 10:57¶ 39 “These are not slaves or servants. During that little time when they were waiting for Abram’s father to die, other people joined themselves to…” 11:24¶ 40 “Abraham was actually a very great evangelist. We don’t know to what degree he stood up and preached. We know he offered sacrifices wherever…”

18Faith, Community, and Justification 3 May 2020 7:20¶ 22 “We’re talking about all this in order to set it over against what we find in the life of Abraham, or Abram as he…” 8:11¶ 25 “Galatians is in many ways a commentary on the book of Genesis and particularly on the life of Abram. We see Paul using the…” 9:32¶ 28 “God uses extreme examples oftentimes in scripture to make his point, and what better example than something he actually at one point had ordained.…”

7Covenant 16 Feb 2020 21:43¶ 86 “Oaths and sanctions. The great example here that we’ll get to way down the line, I imagine, is Abraham. God has made a promise…” 22:07¶ 87 “God formalizes this by a very odd ceremony, but it wasn’t odd in the ancient world. God tells Abraham to take a bunch of…” 23:03¶ 89 “What no doubt surprised Abram was that he was not required to walk the bloody path. God walked it. That’s something we’ll talk about…”