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🗓️ 29 November 2021
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Friends, today we continue our “Word on Fire Show” series on how to understand Genesis by discussing Abraham and Isaac. Watch and learn about these two pivotal figures in salvation history.
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0:00.0 | think of the Lord saying to St. Peter, you know, when you were a young man, you tied your own belt |
0:03.4 | where you wanted to go. Okay, but when you're an old man like Abraham, someone else will tie you |
0:09.6 | up and take you where you don't want to go. Well, the someone else is the Holy Spirit. And so the |
0:15.4 | salvation story in a way begins with this man who was willing to listen. And so we call him the |
0:22.4 | father of faith. That's what it means, I think. Faith here in the really primordial sense means |
0:29.6 | trust. Welcome back to the word on fire show. I'm Brandon Voth, the host and the senior publishing |
0:43.4 | director. We are back together with Bishop Aaron to discuss Genesis. We're continuing our series |
0:49.2 | on understanding Genesis. Today, we're going to learn about one of the central figures, not just |
0:53.6 | of the Bible, but of the whole Western tradition, namely Abraham. And we're going to try and understand |
0:59.5 | that really pivotal prickly episode where it seems God is commanding Abraham to kill his own son. |
1:06.2 | How do we make sense of all that? That's what we'll be discussing here. But before we do, Bishop, |
1:10.4 | good to see you. Welcome. Hey, Brandon, always good to see you. I'm glad to be home after a lot of |
1:15.3 | weeks of traveling around. I was on I think five separate trips the last about six weeks. Yeah, |
1:20.4 | let's talk about some of that. It's been a while since we've connected and updated listeners on |
1:25.5 | where you've been, what you've been doing. So let's talk about a couple of the big events among those |
1:29.6 | five. One was a trip to West Point. What are you doing there? Loved it. I spoke at the Naval Academy |
1:36.0 | about a year ago. And then I guess the word got out. So the army invited me to West Point. And I was |
1:40.8 | delighted to go. I'd never been to West Point. But I'm a kind of a history buff and I love military |
1:45.6 | history. So just go into that place. What's fascinating. We've got a wonderful tour of it. |
1:50.2 | Then I gave a talk that evening to the cadets in the in the great chapel at West Point. Then the next |
1:56.1 | day I went to a football game and turned out to be the highest scoring game in the history of that |
2:01.6 | stadium. It was like they're playing Wake Forest, an army lost, but army scored 56 points and |
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