{"podcast":{"title":"Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages","slug":"church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054","podcast_index_feed_id":2054,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cf92420/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.churchatthecross.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45026216/ab7a5066a9c123c0.jpg","author":"Church at the Cross","episode_count":672,"summary":"Welcome to the weekly podcast of Church at the Cross in Grapevine, TX, led by Pastor JR Vassar. Our mission is to help people and places encounter Jesus. Wherever you are today, our hope is that you would be encouraged, challenged, and inspired to take the next step in your relationship with Jesus. For more info, visit churchatthecross.com!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054"},"episode":{"title":"The Abraham Story | Hebrews 11:8-19","slug":"the-abraham-story-hebrews-11-8-19","published_at":"2026-01-05T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/the-abraham-story-hebrews-11-8-19","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catc-media1/episodes/The-Abraham-Story--Hebrews-118-19-e3dc3gm","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cf92420/podcast/play/113691606/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-8%2F79d837b5-0ecb-802a-3458-2e53627cc3ce.mp3","summary":"Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-19 + Faith alone secures ouracceptance with God. Genesis 15:6 Ephesians 2:8–9 Romans 4:1–5 + Faith alone demands humilitybefore God and others. + Faith obeys God's word withouthaving all the details or all the answers. James 2:21–24 + Faith is future oriented "There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark rocky peak high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” – JRRTolkien, The Return of the King. + Faith believes God more thancircumstances + Faith withholds nothing fromGod, no matter how precious","meta_description":"Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-19 + Faith alone secures ouracceptance with God. Genesis 15:6 Ephesians 2:8–9 Romans 4:1–5 + Faith alone demands humilitybefore Go…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2378,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/episodes/the-abraham-story-hebrews-11-8-19/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/the-abraham-story-hebrews-11-8-19.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}