Letter 012 — The Sender: A Pagan and a Father Who Quit (Genesis 12)
God's first covenant call wasn't to a religious man. Abram was a pagan from a family of pagans. His father started a journey to Canaan and stopped halfway. Most of us are that father, not Abram.
In this letter
- Joshua 24:2 — the verse most people have never heard preached, that names Terah as a worshipper of other gods
- The cultural context of Ur and Haran — moon-god cult, Mesopotamian paganism
- Genesis 11:31 — Terah's unfinished journey to Canaan, the stop in Haran
- Acts 7:2-3 — Stephen's retelling and the call that may have started in Ur
- The universal scope of the promise — all the…
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