Looking For A Breakthrough

A name change doesn't make the old patterns disappear. The test of real change usually comes right after the breakthrough.

Pastor Jeff Cramer opens Genesis 33 with Jacob crossing the river to face Esau — the brother who wanted him dead — for the first time in 20 years. He's walking with a limp, a new name, and all the fear still present. The reunion is peaceful. Every worst-case scenario Jacob built up in his mind never happened. Jeff uses that moment to open up the gap between the change God has done in us and the fear that shows up anyway, and why the hardest seasons are often God's clearest invitations to draw close.