Podcasts about Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 41:31

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Father Abraham | God Provides | Genesis 22

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 36:39

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25-06-28_The Faith of Father Abraham

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 40:20

Romans 4

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Romans 4 - Daily Bible Devotional

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 5:16

Send us a textGood morning! Thank you for taking a few minutes to listen. If you are interested in the Daily Bible Devotional, you can find it at the links below:Amazon - (paperback, hardcover, and Kindle)Spiritbuilding.com - (premium quality paperback)Youtube Video Introducing the ContentFeel free to reach out with any questions: emersonk78@me.comRomans 4 Righteousness before God comes through faith in Jesus, not through perfect adherence to the Old Law or any law separate from Christ. Paul illustrates this with the example of Abraham, who was justified by faith before both circumcision and the Law of Moses. God's promises have always flourished among those who believe in Him and obey Him out of trust in His power. This message was true for Abraham and remains true for all who believe, whether Jew or Gentile. Abraham's faith in God's promise of a son, despite his old age and Sarah's barrenness, was credited to him as righteousness. Paul connects this to believers in Christ, explaining that righteousness is similarly credited to those who trust in God, the One who raised Jesus from the dead for our justification. “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” If we follow in the footsteps of Father Abraham, we too are justified and blessed by our heavenly Father. Unlike other New Testament chapters concerning Abraham, this passage says little about acts of obedience. The emphasis is on trust. When God spoke, Abraham believed Him. In “hope against hope,” he trusted in God's promises. As a result, Abraham glorified God with his life, showing immediate and complete obedience. While this text was written to demonstrate that salvation comes through Christ and not through the Law of Moses, the message remains powerful for us: we are justified by faith in the resurrection of Jesus, not by perfect law keeping. God of enduring promises, we praise You for Your kindness and love. Thank You for the promises of justification and eternal life through Jesus Christ. We believe in His life, His resurrection, and His kingship in heaven. Father, help us strengthen our faith in the days ahead. Lead us to urgent faith like Abraham, trusting in Your promises and Your power, even in “hope against hope.” We are not righteous on our own; however, by Your grace, we are saved as we trust You and strive to follow Your will. We rejoice in being justified as righteous through Your beloved Son. Thought Questions: - What does it mean to say that “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”? Do you trust God as Abraham did? - If we are justified apart from the works of the law, does that mean there are no laws for us to follow in Christ? Why must we still obey His law? - When have you had to trust in God “in hope against hope”? What have been the outcomes when you have held strong in belief?

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Genesis 21 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 30:30

Father Abraham - God Fulfills

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 37:21

Join us as Pastor Zachary walks us through Genesis 21 and highlights God's faithfulness through His promise-keeping and that He is truly Everlasting.

Father Abraham | God Provides | Genesis 20-21

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 40:44

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Sunday Sermon: The Example of Our Father Abraham (Romans 4:1-8)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 50:56

Pastor Gabriel Hughes preaches from Romans 4:1-8 where the Apostle Paul uses the example of Abraham for how we are justified by faith and not by our works. Visit providencecasagrande.com for more info about our church!

First Sunday after Trinity

Pastor Scamman

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 11:05

So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Then he cried and said, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus…

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A Sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity

Living Words

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025

A Sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity St. Luke 16:19-31 & 1 St. John 4:7-21 by William Klock Jesus stopped in another town along the route of his final trip to Jerusalem. Or maybe the people in the town stopped him. They all wanted to see, to touch, to hear, to experience that walking bubble of God's future for themselves. A chance to encounter the long-promised and long-awaited kingdom. And as things settled down, Jesus sat down and started to preach. He told them a story—our Gospel today that begins at Luke 16:19. He said: “There was once a rich man. He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day.” This man wasn't just rich. He was filthy, stinking rich. No one was that rich in this town, but there were some Pharisees standing over there and some eyes wandered that way as Jesus spoke. They weren't feast-every-day or dressed-in-purple rich. Almost no one was. But they did wear fine clothes and you had to be pretty well off to live like the Pharisees did with their scruples and rules about everyday things. Jesus continued: “A poor man named Lazarus, who was covered with sores, lay outside his gate. He longed to feed himself with the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.” Jesus paints a picture of extremes. First there's the rich man. Super rich. Ostentatiously rich. He lived like a king. And then there's Lazarus. He's destitute. He's covered in sores, which means he's unclean. He's probably lame. Jesus describes him as having been deposited at Lazarus' gate. He couldn't get there on his own. He watched the rich man and his friends come and go. He heard the music and laughter from the other side of the wall. He smelled the meat roasting. He would have been happy with the bread the rich people used to wipe their hands. But there was nothing for poor Lazarus. And to make his life worse, as he lay there helpless, the feral dogs of the town would come to lick his oozing sores and leave him stinging. Jesus puts a new spin on an old story the rabbis told. There was a story—it's been preserved in the Talmud—that originated in Egypt and was brought back to Judah by Alexandrian Jews. It was a story about a rich tax collector and a poor torah scholar. They both died. Of course, everyone attended the rich man's funeral, but no one could be bothered to show up at the funeral of the poor man. But then few days later, a friend of the poor man had a dream of paradise, and there in the middle of paradise was the poor torah scholar enjoying everything he'd sacrificed in life for the sake of God's law. And not far away was the rich man, parched and in torment, struggling to reach the stream, but forever held back. When the story was told that way, everyone had sympathy for the poor torah scholar and hated the rich tax collector. But Jesus changes the details—something he liked to do to make a point. The rich man in Jesus' version is just a rich man—maybe even a Pharisee. And the poor man's just a poor a man. And when it's told that way, given the thinking of the day, most people would have had their sympathies reversed. Riches—so long as they weren't gained from collecting taxes for the Romans—riches were a sign of God's favour. And the poor man? Well, think of the disciples' question to Jesus about the blind man. “Who sinned? This man or his parents?” A lot of people would have chalked up the poor man's state to his sins. He was out of favour with God and deserved his miserable lot in life. But that's not the only change Jesus makes to the story. In the typical telling, it's the rich man who has a name. As he tells the story his way, Jesus gives a name to the poor man instead. He calls him Lazarus, which means “God helps”. More importantly, Lazarus is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Eliezer. Jesus would have said “Eliezer”, but remember that Luke is writing in Greek. So I suspect that Jesus was making a deliberate connection with Abraham's servant, Eliezer of Damascus. If we go back to Genesis 15 we read how Abraham lamented to the Lord that he was childless and that his only heir was Eliezer of Damascus. In response, the Lord promised that he and Sarah would have a son. When Isaac was born he displaced Eliezer, a gentile and an outsider, as Abraham's heir. In Jesus' parable, the rich man is one of Abraham's sons. Again, people would have seen his riches as a sign of his election and a sign of God's blessing on him. Even though Lazarus was a Jew, people treated him like an outsider: he was unclean and destitute, so obviously God was punishing him. He was an outsider, like Eliezer of Damascus, and undeserving of Abraham's inheritance. And yet look at what happens. Verse 22: “In due course the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. As he was being tormented in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.” Both men died. The rich man was buried. That was really important in Jewish society. He had all the funeral rites and a parade of mourners through the streets of the city. He was honoured in his death. But Lazarus? He had no one. The dogs ate his body and carried away his bones in the night and no one was the wiser. Except for the Lord. He saw. He'd been watching all along. And he sent his angels to escort Lazarus into paradise—to Abraham's bosom. The Jews described the Messianic age to come as one in which God's people would feast and banquet in the kingdom, but in the meantime the dead would rest in the fellowship of Father Abraham. Lazarus was probably as surprised as anyone, not only to be carried by the angels into paradise, but to be seated at the table right next to Abraham, in the place of highest honour. That was the place reserved for someone like the rich man—not the place for a poor, lame, unclean beggar. And yet there he was. Again, with stark contrast, Jesus describes the situation of the rich man. Despite his high status in life, he wakes to find himself being tormented in hades. Where Lazarus finds himself feasting at Abraham's side, the rich man finds himself on the far side of a great gulf that separates him from that banquet and from Abraham and from any hope of knowing God's age to come. The tables have been turned. In life the rich man feasted and a great gulf kept Lazarus away and starving. Now, it needs to be emphasised that Jesus' parable is not meant to give us teaching about the afterlife. A lot of people down through the ages have gone to this parable assuming that Jesus' point was to teach us about the intermediate state or about heaven and hell. That highlights the danger of pulling portions of Scripture out of context. Jesus was using a well-known folk tale to make a point. Think of it this way. We tell jokes and stories about people being met at the pearly gates by St. Peter with his list, but St. Peter and his list are never the point of those stories. We don't believe that this is what actually happens when we die—it's a popular folk tale in our culture. The point is usually what happens to the people in the joke when they get there. Jesus is telling a story like that here. He's using the elements of a common folk tale, not to teach about the afterlife, but to rebuke the people for their love of money and for their failure to truly live out the law and the prophets—to truly live as Abraham's heirs. As the Lord had been generous to Israel with his grace and his provision, the people of Israel should have been generous with their grace and provisions with each other—and especially with people like Lazarus. That bubble of God's future in the present that they all came to Jesus to encounter? That's what Israel was supposed to be—for each other and for the nations. Instead, Israel had been like the rich man in the story. So back to the story. The rich man and Lazarus have their places reversed when they die. And yet the rich man still doesn't get it. He sees Lazarus seated at the table with Abraham and he calls out in verse 24: “‘Father Abraham! Have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue! I'm in agony in this fire!'” The rich man calls out to “Father Abraham”. His entire life he had deceived himself into thinking that Abraham was his father simply because he was one of Abraham's biological descendants. Like so many others in Israel, he was convinced that his genetics, his circumcision, his diet, his sabbath observance, his separation from gentiles and from all things unclean, and all his sacrifices and offerings made at the temple guaranteed him a seat at the great banquet. And yet he feasted away his days while poor Lazarus starved at his gate. We should be reminded again of the Lord's rebuke through the prophet Hosea: I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. (Hosea 6:6) Or as Jesus puts it in Matthew 9:13, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” The rich man doesn't understand Lazarus' position either. Not only is he still calling out to Abraham as if he has a claim on Abraham, but he calls out to Abraham to send Lazarus to him with some water. He sees Lazarus at Abraham's side and misreads the situation. It never occurs to him that Lazarus is there to be honoured. He thinks that Lazarus is there as Abraham's servant: a waterboy in hades. Abraham has to explain the situation to him. Look at verses 25-26: “My child, remember that you in your life received good things, and in the same way Lazarus received bad things. Now he is comforted here, and you are tormented. Besides that, there is a great chasm standing between us. People who want to cross over from here to you can't do so, nor can anyone get across from the far side to us.” The same thing happens in the folktale as it was usually told. Abraham puts the rich man in his place. Lazarus wasn't taken by the angels to be Abraham's servant—or the rich man's for that matter. And the rich man hasn't landed in a place of torment by mistake. The rich man, too late, realises that the way he lived his life was wrong—he'd been presumptuous about God's grace and favour. Again, Jesus' point isn't to teach us the geography of the afterlife. He's warning his people, he's warning Israel: Judgement is coming and the role reversal that happened in this folk story could very well happen to them. They'd better watch out. The kingdom was at hand, judgement was coming soon, and they had little time left to repent. But then, in the last verses of the chapter, Jesus changes the story again. The way people were used to hearing it, the rich man realised the error of his ways and asked for warnings to be sent to his brothers lest they suffer the same fate—and the Lord or Abraham obliged. As Jesus tells the story, just the opposite happens. The warnings have already been sent. Look at verses 27-31: “‘Please, then, Father,' the rich man said, ‘send Lazarus to my father's house. I have five brothers. Let Lazarus warn them, so that they don't come into this place of torment.' But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them hear them.' And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, they would repent.' ‘And if they do not hear Moses and the Prophets,' came the reply, ‘neither would they be convinced, even if someone rose from the dead.'” “If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither would they be convinced, even if someone rose from the dead.” That's pretty ominous. With the coming of Jesus, the kingdom of God was breaking into the world. God sent Jesus to lead his people out of their long exile. He sent his son to conquer sin and death and to lead his people out of their bondage to both. And so with every sickness healed, with every demon cast out, with every sin forgiven Jesus was showing that the kingdom had come, that God's new future was beginning. This is why tax collectors and sinners were celebrating. Jesus was setting them free. Imagine the joy of Lazarus as he was carried by the angels to feast at Abraham's side. This is the reality that Jesus was making known to the poor and the outcast and to sinners. And yet so many grumbled, especially the Pharisees, every time they saw Jesus doing these things. The men who were sons of Abraham and who spent their lives in devotion to God's law, they couldn't accept what Jesus was doing. He was inviting all the wrong people to the banquet! And so Jesus is rebuking them; he's calling them to repentance just as he called the tax collectors and sinners to repent. And here he warns them: They're like the rich man who refused poor Lazarus even the bread thrown under his table. They've been entrusted with the light, but they refuse to share it with those living in darkness. They've been entrusted with the law and the prophets—God's Word and the means of redemption for the nations—but they'd rather keep it to themselves and see the nations, the poor, the unclean tormented in hades. And at the end of the day, it's just that attitude towards the poor and towards sinners and towards all those on the outside—it's their refusal to celebrate as Jesus heals and forgives and makes new—that reveals that while they have the law and the prophets, they've never truly understood them and they've never truly lived them. They're supposed to be little bubbles of God's future in the present, but instead they've been little bubbles of darkness. And because of that, they may be surprised to find themselves, just like the rich man, on the receiving end of God's judgement. If they don't repent and recognise that in Jesus the kingdom has come, they will have forfeited their inheritance and it will be given to others. They will have no share in the kingdom. This is where Jesus' choice of the name Lazarus or Eliezer comes back into the story. When Isaac was born, the gentile Eliezer lost his inheritance. The Pharisees—and the rest of Israel—are the nation born of Isaac. They are the inheritors of God's promises to Abraham. But with those covenant promises come covenant obligations—not just circumcision, avoiding unclean food, and sacrifices at the temple, but a seeking after justice and mercy and truly living out the lovingkindness of God in the world. If Israel refuses to fulfil those obligations and if she refuses to acknowledge that in Jesus they are being fulfilled, she will lose those covenant promises—she will lose her inheritance and it will be given to others, to outsiders grafted into Jesus who is the true Israel and the one truly faithful son of Abraham. Eliezer will inherit the promise after all. This is one of the key themes of Luke's gospel—ever since Mary sang out: He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek; He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent away empty. (Luke 1:52-53) This was the message that John the Baptist was preaching: “You'd better prove your repentance by bearing the proper fruit! Don't start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father'; let me tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! The axe is already standing by the roots of the tree—so every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” (Luke 3:8-9). This was the warning that Jesus gave when he told the people to strive to enter through the narrow door before it's shut, before it's too late: “He will say to you, ‘I do not know where you people are from. Be off with you, you wicked lot.' That's where you'll find weeping and gnashing of teeth: when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in God's kingdom, and you yourselves will be thrown out. People will come from east and west, from north and south, and sit down to feast in God's kingdom.” (Luke 13:27-29). The rich man and his brothers, just like the Pharisees and just like unfaithful Israel, all had the law and the prophets. They didn't need any more witnesses. Jesus' rebuke that even if someone should be raised from the dead they still wouldn't believe is a prophetic look ahead at Israel's fate. They refused to listen to the law and the prophets. Jesus came to renew Israel, and she refused to hear him, she cried out for his crucifixion, and she continued to reject him even when he rose from the dead. And so others are being grafted in: unclean people, sinners, and gentiles are being grafted in and through Jesus are being given the inheritance that Israel forfeit. Now, what does this mean for us? Brothers and sisters, we have Moses and the prophets, but more importantly we have Jesus and the Spirit, too. We've been renewed. The Spirit has given to us the one thing that the old Israel lacked: he's inscribed God's law on our hearts. He's made it a part of us. He's made it such a part of us that St. John can say in our Epistle today: Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and all who love are born of God and know God. The one who does not love has not known God, because God is love….If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is completed in us. That is how we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us a portion of his Spirit.” (1 John 4:7-8, 12-13) Maybe this is why the Spirit appeared as tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples at Pentecost. They became light in the Spirit—very visibly those little walking bubbles of God's light-filled future, God's new creation, pulled into the present for the sake of the world. That's the day when, through his Spirit, God made his people to truly be what he'd intended them to be all along. Brothers and Sisters, it was easy for those First Century Judeans to take their convent status for granted. It should not be so for us. They were the natural sons of Abraham, but we are the dead wood that has been grafted into the living vine—by the Spirit, into Jesus. We're the ones who have received an inheritance that was not naturally ours. The Table we come to this morning, the bread we eat and the wine we drink, remind us of our own poverty and the amazing grace and generosity of God towards us. In so many ways and for so many reasons, we do not deserve his invitation to this table, but he has been gracious and merciful to us. He's given his own son to die so that we can be a part of this family. May we never take his grace or our position before him or his table for granted. May we, redeemed by his blood and filled with his Spirit, embody his love for the sake of the world. May we always be faithful and living witnesses of God's new creation—light in midst of darkness, love in the midst of hate; hope in the midst of fear. Let's pray: O God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because in our weakness we can do nothing good without you, give us the help of your grace, that in keeping your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Genesis 19-20 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 43:49

Father Abraham | God's Grace | Genesis 19

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 43:59

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Father Abraham - God's Grace

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 47:51

Listen in as Pastor Frank preaches further on on our 'Father Abraham' series through Genesis 19 & 20

Father Abraham | God Listens | Genesis 18

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 42:37

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Genesis 18 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 36:56

Father Abraham - God Listens

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 42:33

Listen in as Frank dives further into our Father Abraham in Genesis 18!

Father Abraham | God's Mark | Genesis 17

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 39:20

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Genesis 17 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 43:33

Father Abraham - God's Mark

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 35:07

Listen in as Pastor Frank dives deeper into our Father Abraham series in Genesis 17!

Father Abraham - God's Compassion

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Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 37:12

Listen in as Pastor Trae preaches through Gen. 16!

Father Abraham | God's Compassion | Genesis 16

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 33:33

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Genesis 16 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 38:51

Presidents, health, privacy, and cover-ups - Nick Pitts | Father Abraham had many sons - Luke Moon

Mornings with Carmen

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 49:00

Nick Pitts of The Briefing and the Institute for Global Engagement talks about the news around former President Biden's cancer diagnosis and the book "Original Sin" about the cover-up of his health during his presidency. Where does the line of privacy need to be crossed? Luke Moon of Generation Zion and the Philos Project talks about the President's trip to the Mid East and the state of the Abraham Accords. Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: Click here

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Genesis 15 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 37:21

Father Abraham - God's Covenant

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Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 35:31

Pastor Zachary walks through the initiation of the Abrahamic Covenant in Gen. 15 as we continue in our study of Father Abraham.

Genesis 13-14 | Father Abraham

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Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 39:13

Wayne Meadows - Father Abraham (Romans 4:1-12)

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Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 42:12

Date: Sunday, May 11, 2025Title: Father AbrahamPreacher: Wayne MeadowsSeries: Romans (Part 14)Passage: Romans 4:1-12

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Father Abraham - God Reigns

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Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 37:11

Father Abraham

First Baptist Church Texarkana

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 42:19

Message by Pastor Jeff Schreve on Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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Father Abraham - God Protects