think of the Lord saying to St. Peter, you know, when you were a young man, you tied your own belt

where you wanted to go. Okay, but when you're an old man like Abraham, someone else will tie you

up and take you where you don't want to go. Well, the someone else is the Holy Spirit. And so the

salvation story in a way begins with this man who was willing to listen. And so we call him the

father of faith. That's what it means, I think. Faith here in the really primordial sense means

trust. Welcome back to the word on fire show. I'm Brandon Voth, the host and the senior publishing

director. We are back together with Bishop Aaron to discuss Genesis. We're continuing our series

on understanding Genesis. Today, we're going to learn about one of the central figures, not just

of the Bible, but of the whole Western tradition, namely Abraham. And we're going to try and understand

that really pivotal prickly episode where it seems God is commanding Abraham to kill his own son.

How do we make sense of all that? That's what we'll be discussing here. But before we do, Bishop,

good to see you. Welcome. Hey, Brandon, always good to see you. I'm glad to be home after a lot of

weeks of traveling around. I was on I think five separate trips the last about six weeks. Yeah,

let's talk about some of that. It's been a while since we've connected and updated listeners on

where you've been, what you've been doing. So let's talk about a couple of the big events among those

five. One was a trip to West Point. What are you doing there? Loved it. I spoke at the Naval Academy

about a year ago. And then I guess the word got out. So the army invited me to West Point. And I was

delighted to go. I'd never been to West Point. But I'm a kind of a history buff and I love military

history. So just go into that place. What's fascinating. We've got a wonderful tour of it.

Then I gave a talk that evening to the cadets in the in the great chapel at West Point. Then the next

day I went to a football game and turned out to be the highest scoring game in the history of that

stadium. It was like they're playing Wake Forest, an army lost, but army scored 56 points and

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