2005-07-24 Character Issue - 4 - Trusting

What does it mean to live by faith versus living by sight? How does God develop faith in believers through stages of leaving, being led, and finding our ultimate home? This message explores Abraham and Sarah's journey of trusting God even when they couldn't see the path ahead, revealing how faith requires leaving comfort behind for uncomfortable places where tension with the world becomes inevitable. Through their story—complete with failures like Hagar and Ishmael—discover how imperfect faith is still credited as righteousness and how fixing our eyes on God's promise of a new heavens and new earth enables us to press forward as strangers in this world, longing for the heavenly city God has prepared.