Join us in our new sermon series looking at the story of Abram in the book of Genesis, and what this story has to teach us about God, faith, and ourselves in the 21st century.
Pastor Clint starts the series off by examining how God's call to Abram in Genesis 12 is a call to risk his comfort, and how Abram's risk of his identity, control, and trust leads him to a greater life than any he could have had otherwise.
Sermon Resources:
1. "The barrenness of Sarah is an effective metaphor for hopelessness. This text tells us there is no foreseeable future. There is no human power to invent a future. The human race and human history have just hit a dead end. It’s over.” - Walter Brueggemann, "Genesis"
2. “You cannot become human on your own. Surely that is why, in Jesus’s sad joke, the rich man has as hard a time getting into Paradise as the camel through the needle’s eye because with his credit card in his pocket, the rich man is so effective at getting for himself everything he needs that he does not see that what he needs more than anything else in the world can only be had as a gift. He does not see that the one thing a clenched fist cannot do is accept…” -Frederick Buechner, "A Crazy, Holy, Grace"
3. “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes, and precautions — to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is remain what we call “ourselves,” to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be “good.” We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way — centered on money or pleasure or ambition — and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is what Christ warned us you could not do. As He said, a thistle cannot produce figs. If I am a field that contains nothing but grass-seed, I cannot produce wheat. Cutting the grass may keep it short: but I shall still produce grass and no wheat. If I want to produce wheat, the change must go deeper than the surface. I must be ploughed up and resown.” -C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
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