Message by Doug Bunnell, recorded live January 25, 2026 at First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham. Scripture read by Laurie Bunnell.

Blessed to Bless

We are a blessed people, and we are to be a blessing.

• Why do you think God asked Abram to leave his country, people, and father’s household?
• How does this passage connect to God’s larger plan for humanity?
• Is there an area where God is asking you to trust Him without giving full details?
• In what ways has God blessed you so that you can bless others?
• How does Abram’s obedience challenge your understanding of faith?

Genesis 12:1-7

12 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot and all the possessions that they had gathered and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran, and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.