Romans 14:19-23 Given that the Kingdom of God is not about eating, but about righteousness, peace, and joy, this calls the believer to act accordingly. What is it that the strong in conscience should pursue? Paul insists that all things are objectively clean, but there are two cases in which they are subjectively evil. What are those two cases? What is the "work of God." How can we destroy the work of God? If our freedom is a right, what is it not? How can someone who is weak in faith grow to understand their freedom if the strong don't push them in that direction? How can the strong help the weak to be built up in their walk with God? What does Paul mean by saying the strong are to have their own conviction before God? How will they be blessed (happy)? To avoid sinning, what must the weak be careful to never do? (48 min)

Keywords Conscience, Faith, Doubt, Strong, Weak

Genesis 18:10-16 Sarah has finally heard, directly from the Lord, the marvelous promise. But what of the reality that has been Sarah’s world her whole life? What will win out in her heart, the past reality or the promise of God? How can one verse tell us two opposite things about Sarah’s faith? Does Sarah’s failure here doom her future and leave her outside of the covenant promise?

Keywords Sarah, Abraham, Faith, Doubt

Genesis 12:10-20 In the face of a severe famine in Canaan, Abram chooses to go to Egypt. Was Abram acting outside of God’s direction for his life? Abram’s forgetting of God’s promises to him causes him to put his own wife in peril. Will God abandon Abram in this hour of Abram’s faithlessness.

Keywords Abraham, Sarah, Egypt, Faith, Doubt

Genesis 14:21-15:3 What can we learn from Abram about our rights and when we should exercise them? Abram lets go of one of the best chances he has to ensure the realization of the promise in his life. An introduction to a watershed event in Abram’s life which serves as a paradigm for all who would come to God.

Keywords Abraham, Faith, Rights, Doubt