Starting with a normal guy named Abram, living on the other side of the river in Haran, God begins what he calls a mission to "bless all the nations of the earth." How will he do it? Through the nation that is born to Abram. Obviously, this must be because Abram was such a righteous and faithful guy, right? RIGHT? Or did God want to show us something far different... something about himself??? Maybe God was about to define faithfulness in a way people could never imagine on our own.
Read MorePaul claims in Ephesians 3 that every family on earth derives its name from the Creator -- if that's true, then the story of Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth... reaching to Noah and his sons, is all of our story. Here we learn something of ourselves, and even more of the big story, God's Story, that's being told in the lives of the first people.
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