Mike talks about the strange covenant ceremony in Gen. 15 that dramatizes God's grace by showing how God is the one who fulfills the covenant and the one who is punished because we broke the covenant.

Mike talks about how Abraham wasn't a picture of strong, robust faith; in fact, Abraham was kind of a scoundrel. But over and over again God re-tells his promise to Abraham to give him many offspring. Rather than give up on Abraham, God continues to announce his promise, eventually fulfilling his promise.

Evan talks about our attempts to get to build a life for ourselves in order to get a life we desire, but in the end theses building projects will only fail us. It's when we believe the Gospel that people and things are no longer the brick that we try to build our lives with. In fact, we can now love and serve others.

Evil like everyone else, Noah should have died in the flood. But God saved Noah and shows His one-sided, unconditional grace and saves Noah by providing a way of rescue through the ark. Mike talks about God's one-way love and how He provided our vessel in Christ that rescues us from the deadly flood of God's judgment.

Mike talks about our tendency to think we need to be more like Abel and less like Cain. In truth, we are all like Cain in our attempts to please God through our effort and merit. Yet, as with Cain, God doesn't kill us for our sin, but provides a perfect sacrifice to atone for our sin - something Cain was unable to do.