When Faith & Fear Collide

You can know God's promises, have the history, have watched him come through before — and still feel the fear move in when something threatens what you love.

Pastor Jeff Cramer opens Genesis 32 with Jacob headed home after 20 years away, messengers returning with the news that Esau is coming with 400 men. The fear hits and Jacob falls back into old patterns — splitting his flocks, working the angles, trying to manage the outcome himself. Jeff uses that collision between Jacob's fear and God's already-present protection to open up the gap between the promises we've been given and the faith we can actually muster in the moment.