Your marriage wasn't meant to feel like two people living in the same house, carrying everything alone. So why does it?

In this episode, we look at what marriage was designed for, why it breaks down, and where the real strength comes from. Bitterness, scorekeeping, and withheld grace will turn your spouse into your opponent. But a marriage where Christ is shaping both people is a marriage that holds.

We are in this together, yes. But only under Christ will we have the strength to stand.

God spent 25 years keeping a promise to Abraham. Then he told him to destroy it. In Genesis 22, Abraham is commanded to take Isaac — his only son, the one the entire covenant runs through — up a mountain and offer him as a burnt offering. Same God. Both commands. No explanation.

This episode walks through the Akedah verse by verse — the three-day journey, Isaac carrying the wood, the knife, the ram in the thicket, and the name Abraham gives that mountain. But the story doesn't end in Genesis 22. There's another Father in this story. One who didn't stop the knife. And once you see the connection between Mount Moriah and Calvary, you won't read this chapter the same way again.

Two sons. One promise. And God told him to let one go.

In this episode we walk through one of the most painful

chapters in Abraham's life — the casting out of Hagar

and Ishmael, the narrowing of the covenant to Isaac

alone, and what it means that God was with Ishmael in

providence but not in covenant.

Abraham loved both sons. But God's sovereign plan

required an impossible choice. And the ripple effects

are still felt today.

And ultimately — how all of it points to Jesus, the Son

of Promise who was not spared so that we could be.

Scripture: Genesis 21 | Galatians 4:29

Part of the ongoing Word Walk series through the life

of Abraham. New episodes every week.

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