God's first covenant call wasn't to a religious man. Abram was a pagan from a family of pagans. His father started a journey to Canaan and stopped halfway. Most of us are that father, not Abram.

In this letter

- Joshua 24:2 — the verse most people have never heard preached, that names Terah as a worshipper of other gods

- The cultural context of Ur and Haran — moon-god cult, Mesopotamian paganism

- Genesis 11:31 — Terah's unfinished journey to Canaan, the stop in Haran

- Acts 7:2-3 — Stephen's retelling and the call that may have started in Ur

- The universal scope of the promise — all the families of the earth

- Why Abram's obedience was a rescue, not a religious deepening

Scripture

- Joshua 24:2

- Genesis 11:31

- Acts 7:2-3

- Genes ...