1. The best response to failure is confession.
2. We must value relationships over possessions.
3. How we treat other people often reveals our faith in God.

Heroic Faith

2023-04-30_The Safety of Selflessness--Genesis 13

1. God always gives us more grace than we deserve.
2. God judges evil to bring justice and preserve His holiness.
3. We must deal with the idols of our heart to avoid God's discipline.

2023-06-25_How God Deals with Evil

This is a powerful episode of Abraham imploring God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah, cities of sinfulness, for the sake of those who live a righteous life. In it we discuss God and the ability for us to ask that anger is quelled for the sake of others. In the Church we do this every Sunday when we offer the prayers of the faithful. In Judaism the prayer is that God move from justice to mercy. This is what we experience in this story of Abraham reaching out for the sake of others, leaving petition for his own family alone, and advocating for all who are righteous, even if only a few. Abraham was called by God out of a profoundly pagan world to be the one who will bless all the nations before God. Jesus calls each one of us to do the same.

Episode 73: From Sinai to Bethlehem - You Can Petition the Lord With Prayer. Ask Abraham!

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Connecting Scripture and Life podcast explores the way God speaks in different times and places with the same wisdom that lead to a happy life. Scripture teaches us how to live. Through conversations with people who love, teach, and live it we will explore our own lives in the pages of the sacred.

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Steven is Senior Pastor of The Evangelical Free Church in Des Plaines, Illinois USA.  A graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

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