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September 22 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Trish.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Christian.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: This fall we're moving at the speed of love.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and an essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Love has its speed.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's an inner speed.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's a spiritual speed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: It goes on in the depth of our life.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: Whether we notice it or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's the speed of love in a hurry-up world.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: The speed of love in a world hell-bent on efficiency.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: The speed of love in a world where too many people are passed by and run over or absolutely exhausted.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: Love has a speed.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Abram and Nahor both married.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: The name of Abram's wife was Sari, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milka.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milka and Isca.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Now Sari was childless because she was not able to conceive.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sari, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Kalians to go to Canaan.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Terah lived two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now the Lord said to Abram, Go from your country and your kindred and your family's house to the land that I will show you.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Abram took his wife Sargi and his brother's son Lot, and all the possessions they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran, and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: When they had come to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Morah.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, To your offspring I will give this land.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: So he built there an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and I on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: This is the word of the Lord.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: A genealogy of family history.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: People living hundreds of years.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Abram and Sarai's difficulty conceiving children.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: And then there's God's call to Abram to go to a new land and a promise of blessing.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: All of it culminating in worship.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: Abram building altars, places to worship, as he makes his way to the place God was promising.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Here we see God shows up, God shows himself, and God participates.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: That same God is showing up to you today and inviting you in too.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: God shows up to Abram as the kind of God who takes initiative, the kind of God who pursues relationship with his people, a God who makes promises, one who will certainly follow through, even when the prospect of it all seems quite impossible.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: This is a God who is getting involved.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: God shows up to Abram as a God who acts.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: God shows up to Abram, not as a vague, distant mystery God, not as a God who is teasing Abram or withholding himself, not like the gods of the surrounding nations who seem to toy with people's lives with their fickle emotions.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's not what God is like.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's not what our God is like.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: No, this God, the Lord, is one who says, Abram, I am for you.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: I am on your side.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: I am looking out for you.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: I will bless you.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: This is who I am.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: I have chosen to love and to give and to be for you.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: For our part as a pillar community, we'd love to be praying for you.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: May the grace of Christ, which daily renews us, and the love of God, which enables us to love all, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, which unites us in one body, make us eager to obey the will of God until we meet again.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.