How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Like father, like son. Well, usually that phrase is used in a negative way.

More often than not, it points to how sons follow in their father's mistakes.

And surprisingly, that's true even of the greatest men of faith in the Old Testament.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

As the Bible bus pulls up to Genesis 26, we're going to see how Abraham's sins were passed on to his son,

Isaac, proving, as Dr. J. Vernon McGee like to say, that there's no generation gap when it comes to sin.

I'm Steve Schwetz, your host inviting you to climb aboard, and as you find your seat, Greg and I

have got a few letters to share from our fellow listeners.

We do, and of course, it's just the last few days of Letter Month, which we is something

Dr. McGee started, and we've carried on a tradition every May and every December.

We just say, would you take a minute and tell us your story?

And we're so glad that listeners have.

This first one is pretty exciting.

I'd like you to read this.

Yeah, our first note comes from a listener who, in this case, didn't give his name.

He wrote, I began listening from prison on a forbidden radio headset.

And for some reason, once the radio was left to me by a prisoner who was going home, the

rules changed, and it wasn't contraband anymore.

It only picked up a few channels, including a Christian one.

That was April of 1996, and a miracle happened in my heart when I got on the Bible bus.

So I stayed on the bus after my release four months later, and now continue to ride even 30 years later. What a

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