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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Genesis 12-15, and I’m calling the episode “Arrested Obedience”. We’ll be reading about Abram and the promise God made to him. We’ll do our “On This Day In Church History” segment. Thoughts on Genesis 12 Joshua 24:2 tells us that Abram came from a family that lived on the other side of the Euphrates river and worshipped other gods.  This place is identified as Ur of the Chalees in Genesis 11:28 and 31, Genesis 15:7 and Nehemiah 9:7. Acts 7:4 calls it the "land of the Chaldeans". This is in the area of modern day Iraq. It was in the lower region of what was called the Fertile Crescent. It was a land of prosperity with a thriving civilization, and Abram's father, Terah (TAIR-uh) seems to have been wealthy. While Abram was still living in this land of prosperity, Acts 7:3 tells us that "God told him, ‘Leave your native land and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.'" We have to sort of piece the story together. In Genesis 11:31 we