Here’s the idea for a second sermon that seeks to help our people understand the theological differences between the three stages of faith: justification, sanctification, and glorification. I am thinking of these three referents for each one of the “tions”:...
God gave Abram a calling to leave Haran, step into the unknown, and “father” a people. At age 99, God called Abram to the higher calling of becoming Abraham, to be a “high father,” the father of many generations who would “bless all peoples of the earth” (Gen12:2-3)....