Have you ever worried that the promises of God won’t come true? Today, R.C. Sproul introduces us to a man named Abraham and to the covenant God made with him, showing that the Lord always keeps His promises and is never late in fulfilling them. This week, we’re celebrating 30 years of Renewing Your Mind. With your donation of any amount, you can receive R.C. Sproul’s book Everyone’s a Theologian, plus lifetime digital access to 5 complete teaching series and digital study guides from Dr. Sproul: Chosen by God, Dust to Glory, The Holiness of God (original and expanded editions), Knowing Scripture, and What Is Reformed Theology?: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3619/resource-collection Never contacted Ligonier before? Request your free copy of R.C. Sproul’s booklet introducing the Bible’s message of salvation, The Great Rescue: https://renewingyourmind.org/rescue Meet Today’s Teacher: R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Meet the Host: Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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The supreme test came upon Abraham when he made that dreadful journey to Mount Moriah, which tradition says is located on the exact spot that later in history is called Mount Calvary, where God took his son, his only son, the son whom he loved, Jesus, and went through with the sacrifice.
Thirty years ago this week, RSC Sprawl launched this daily outreach, Renewing Your Mind. And for three decades, by God's grace, the truth of who God is and what happened on Calvary has been proclaimed to millions of people around the world.
Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and I'm thankful that you're joining us for a special week of episodes as we give thanks to God for how He has used Renewing Your Mind in countless lives over these past 30 years. You'll hear classic messages from R.C. Sproul's series and bonus material as we feature clips from old interviews with Dr. Sproul, as well as new interviews with Mrs. Vesta Sproul and even me.
And you'll have the opportunity to own six teaching series, five study guides, and a copy of Dr. Sproul's book, Everyone's a Theologian. Simply visit renewingyourmind.org to give a donation in support of the next 30 years of Renewing Your Mind. And this resource bundle will be yours as our way of saying thank you for helping this listener-supported outreach.
And if you've never contacted Renewing Your Mind or Ligonier Ministries before, I'll let you know about a free gift we have for you after today's message. Well, here's Dr. Sproul from his series, Dust to Glory, on God's covenant with Abraham.
I think we're living in a very interesting time. It's a time of crisis. We're in a period of history that is somewhat unusual, where we're in that time where we're making a transition not only from year to year or even in terms of the turn of a century but rather the time of the turn of a millennium.
And of course, any time you have that transition from millennium to millennium, all of the historians and the sociologists and the prognosticators of the future talk about the significance of this moment in history. Now, the historians of our day have described our time as the post-Christian era.
a time where the teaching of Christianity has been deemed increasingly irrelevant, a time when the church is seen as a museum, outdated, outmoded. It's been reduced in certain places of Europe to the role of the mausoleum, indeed the gravesite for those who have declared the death of God.
And yet, there remains in this world today a pulsating group of believing Christian people who still live at this point in time trusting in promises that were made 2,000 years ago. Two thousand years is a long time, and there's some irony in this, in that we're at that point now where just about two thousand years have elapsed since the birth of Jesus.
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